Google opens a new chapter in the saga of digitization of books, this time going after device kind, from Amazon, and eReader from Sony.
The company launched a mobile version of Google Book Search, providing them with users of iPhone and Android devices instant access to over 1.5 million books public. The works of authors such as William Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Charles have been optimized to be readable on a small screen, considered a challenge to Google Book Search "daunting" in a blog post announcing the launch:
It is an interesting story about the need to prepare so many books for mobile devices. If you use Google Book Search, you'll notice that the preview sites are actually images făucte pages by digitizing books. These pages show images of very fine when opened on a computer, but turned the idle screen on a phone.
Solution to make our books available was to extract pages of text to be provided on the screens of mobile devices and any other web page. Acest proces de extragere este cunoscut sub numele Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This process of extraction is known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
However, as mentioned team, there are common barriers that prevent proper extraction of written words, such as spots, font-specific or outdated links and pages with uneven surfaces.
The
market for electronic readers to books exploded in the last year,
analysts estimating that Amazon has sold 500,000 Kinde devices for
reading electronic books in 2008.
Google, which last year
completed a three-year project on the scan could be scheduled to launch
in conditions in which Amazon would intend to launch next generation
kind, during this month.
