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Google’s Book Scanning Patent

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Google sees infrared in plan to scan world's books

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The Secret Of Google's Book Scanning Machine Revealed

Before Google came on the scene, book scanning was a tedious process that sometimes resulted in the death of a book. The software used to scan books, called Optical Character Recognition software or OCR for short, required each page of the book to be flat.

Google created some seriously nifty infrared camera technology that detects the three-dimensional shape and angle of book pages when the book is placed in the scanner. This information is transmitted to the OCR software, which adjusts for the distortions and allows the OCR software to read text more accurately.

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United States Patent 7,508,978
Lefevere , et al. March 24, 2009

Detection of grooves in scanned images

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