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guard-of-terra
on Jan 13, 2012
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Google's Kenyan ripoff?
They scan books that way too (manually), aren't they?
asto
on Jan 13, 2012
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No. Here's a description of a patent they filed for their book scanning tech.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/library/2009/04/the_granting_of_pat...
travem
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Actually there is manual labor involved, see
http://techcrunch.com/2007/12/06/google-books-adds-hand-scan...
and
http://books.google.com/books?id=lAIJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=f...
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