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I doubt this is insurmountable. For comparison, as of last year, Google Books had scanned 30 million books, not pages, all of wildly varying formats.
by jpatokal 13y ago
I doubt this is insurmountable. For comparison, as of last year, Google Books had scanned 30 million books, not pages, all of wildly varying formats.
- acdha 13y agoWhat was their accuracy rate? What's your process for not being sued when someone's retirement is calculated assuming they made $10,000 when they retired instead of $70,000 because your OCR glitched? Google Books is a wonderful service but few services meet the level of importance and liability which a retirement system will have.
- hindsightbias 13y agoWait until those glitches show up on 60 Minutes and Congressmen are ranting about another digital disaster... There's no win here when you're dealing with ancient records and dozens of agencies with different standards. It makes me laugh when people see this as an easy project and don't grok the politics and all. Decades back, I saw a "by hand" project that generated >$100M in tax revenues from corporate non-compliance in one test region, and the next year, Congress cut/delayed an automated expansion because the biz folks whined about getting caught.