Archive for the ‘PDF’ Category
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Peter Suber, at Open Access News, has a good article on Google's recent announcement that they are now OCR'ing scanned PDF documents so that they become searchable text documents in Google Web Search.
Scroll down especially to Suber's comments, in which he describes the background to this Google advance, which is ...
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Google recently announced that scanned PDF documents are now available in Google Web Search. PDF documents have been in Google before, but most PDF documents that have been scanned from paper documents have not, so this will greatly improve access to PDF's. As described below, it's important to be able ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Kalev Leetaru (Univ Illinois) recently published a lengthy and interesting article comparing Google Books and the Open Content Alliance. It's especially interesting because it brings together a good description of many nitty-gritty details of Google Books that are not easy to track down. I'm excerpting a few passages on the ...
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