[WEB4LIB] Google digitization and scanning resolution?

[Ross Singer]

I'm not sure I see a real problem here.  Isn't the OCR the
important part?

I mean, sure it'd be nice for them to be ultra-high res, but it's
the potential of "search inside the book", not "ebook".

-Ross.


On Wed, March 9, 2005 4:07 pm, Sloan, Bernie said:
> Earlier this week I alerted people to an American Libraries
> article
> about Google's digitization project.
>
> There was a remark attributed to Ann Wolpert, MIT's library
> director,
> which raised an issue I hadn't seen mentioned before. Speaking of
> the
> scanning project, Wolpert said "The scanning resolution is
> reportedly
> quite low..."
>
> Has anyone seen this mentioned anywhere else?
>
> Bernie Sloan
> Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
> University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
> 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
> Champaign, IL  61820
>
> Phone: (217) 333-4895
> Fax:   (217) 265-0454
> E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu
>
>
>
>
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