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> Does this suggest noncommercial library books will offer research capabilities that commercial ebooks will not? If they are scanned noncommercial library boo
by magicalist 14y ago
> Does this suggest noncommercial library books will offer research capabilities that commercial ebooks will not?
If they are scanned noncommercial library books, I guess.
I'm not sure how this is really relevant though. Scanning for this use may be fair use (hooray! some sanity), but the publishers aren't providing an ASCII file to the libraries either, the libraries are making a copy...hence the need for a fair use decision.
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- bookworm_ 14y agoI guess the question is whether libraries will use OCR to try to produce text that can be mined, or will they just make images.