Google to enhance book scanning efforts by reCAPTCHA

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Google now speed up its huge effort of scanning down millions of books and journals with the purchase of well-known company called reCAPTCHA. This is provider of CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), technology that prevent spammers from using computers to automatically register for online services like Web Mail Account, and other Online Registrations.

recapcha Google to enhance book scanning efforts by reCAPTCHA

Google in its official blog stated – “In this way, reCAPTCHA’s unique technology improves the process that converts scanned images into plain text, known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This technology also powers large scale text scanning projects like Google Books and Google News Archive Search. Having the text version of documents is important because plain text can be searched, easily rendered on mobile devices and displayed to visually impaired users. So we’ll be applying the technology within Google not only to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products but also to improve our books and newspaper scanning process”

The search giant has a huge effort ongoing in that area for its Google Books and Google News Archive services.

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