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I heard of HathiTrust Research Center but didn't know almost all the books were scanned by Google. Google was nice to want to share. But I think the original a

I heard of HathiTrust Research Center but didn't know almost all the books were scanned by Google. Google was nice to want to share. But I think the original and ongoing concern was improved image recognition and NLP. Ie. Machine Learning the whole world knowledge.

extra88 7y ago
> Google was nice to want to share. Niceness had nothing to do with it. From the article, "As part of the deal, Google’s partner libraries made sure they got to keep digital copies of their scanned works for research and preservation use."