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Just curious. What happened to all the data made by the old reCaptcha (the one that OCRed books). I know that they stopped the project, but did Google at least
by greenhouse_gas 10y ago
Just curious. What happened to all the data made by the old reCaptcha (the one that OCRed books).
I know that they stopped the project, but did Google at least release the data (old public domain text of books)?
- dingdongding 10y agoI think that data is what made lot of old books searchable on Google Books.
- fiddlerwoaroof 10y agoWasn't recaptcha originally associated with Project Gutenberg's digitization efforts?
- fiddlerwoaroof 10y agoI guess not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA#Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA#Origin
- greenhouse_gas 10y agoIt says there that it was. Seems like a bait-and-switch. Do free labor for a good cause (PD books), turns out you're just growing Goolge's library which can be taken down at a whim.
- icebraining 10y agoIt says there that it was. No, that was the Distributed Proofreaders project, which is unrelated (just used as an early example of crowdsourced OCR). reCaptcha originally helped digitized the archive of the New York Times, but that was finished years ago.