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Bad Handwriting, Undeliverable Mail, and Improvements in OCR

The question of what happens to your mail when the address is illegible offers a view on how much OCR technology has improved.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 12, 2022
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The Terrible Price of Free: On E-reading Jane Austen via Google's Ebooks

The new Google Ebooks have made a mess of many popular classics in the public domain.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 14, 2011
  • 33 Comments

reCAPTCHA: Workforce of Accuracy

Software that protects against spam can also help digitize old text.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Aug 25, 2008
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