My headline wo n’t put the Updike ’s of the earth out of business , but maybe Google ’s new proficiency for scan books into its ever - growing digital subroutine library will help me read more and become a better blogger .
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Anyway , the program , as you may know , is calledGoogle Book Search , and it ’s pretty simple : Google is right now busily scanning as many ledger as it can get its script on and adding the images to a search database . It ’s just another way the company is slowly demand over the world , but who wish — you’re able to click links in the books when they mention position and Google Maps willtake you there !
https://gizmodo.com/google-adding-maps-to-books-ads-to-follow-231988
But on their way to putting public libraries out of business , Google ran into a decidedly low - tech problem when rake the strong-arm books for uploading into their new digital mass medium . Basically , the fictional character acknowledgement software requires a relatively flat 2D range of the text to work 100 % decently . The books ’ bindings are n’t cooperate , however , as they cause the Sir Frederick Handley Page to arch upward on either side . This has made the process take far longer than our future overlord would have liked .
Luckily , Google knows a affair or two about frickin ’ optical maser beams ( but thankfully not how to attach them to the mind of shark — yet ) . By wander an infrared ray over each Good Book , the Google squad can use infrared television camera to map out the 3D shape and filter out the deformation with some nifty computer error correction software . And now the Bible are just fly off the shelves and into the digital ethoxyethane . [ New Scientist ]
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