Quote: Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler (antedating attrib Albert Einstein 1950)

[Robin Hamilton]

Does anyone know what OCR software googlebooks uses?  Seems a bit primitive
to me.

Also, my impression is that they are now trying to synchronize with Internet
Archives, but that the synchronization isn't yet complete -- would this be
correct?

Robin

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> Thanks to Garson O'Toole and Victor Steinbok for their first-rate work on
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