Yes, I have seen both good and bad examples, some very good, some very bad. . . . Michael On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, N Wolcott wrote:
Here is Chapter I of the Steam House by Jules Verne. I think they have a way to go. I wonder if Google is planning to do better? To be fair the Dejavu look at the rather bad images allows them to be mostly made out, so one could reconstruct most of this page. The first line is "TWO THOUSAND POUNDS FOR A HEAD". The images are like with a 300 mp camera, so not surprizing the poor OCR. I think PG texts are easier to read. I understand the books are being destroyed after scanning: might as well put them right into the dumpster and save all the trouble.
CHAPTER L ".nv<» thousand rnuNns for a hkaiv,"
" A tst'.WAfct* of two thousand pounds will he paid to any Mjtr who will drhVrr up, dead or alive, oik* of the prime movrr» <»f thf Srpoy revolt, at present known to he in the ifMdrney, the Nabob Datulou Taut, nnnuionly
Jitu'h vv»t'i the ijotirr rratl hy the iiilialntants tif Aurun*
jUitMul, mi tltr rvniiiijj uf the* 6th of March, 1807,
A cojy iff the jil,u,;in! h«u! been recently affixed to the wall iif «i loiirly and ntiiuu! hunj;ulow on the hanks of llir iJitiuUttiu, *iud already the conu*r of the paper htvir- iiijj flu* j;r«'on*l fi*iiiir*-«a fiaiiir cx<,%nited hy tiuinCj .secretly Utltuii'rt) hy uthnrji'**"WiH jjone,
The fiiiiti^ had Urea there^ printal in Inrjjo letters, hut If wafi torn off hy the hand of a ^solitary fakir who IKij^ed t»y that Ucst^latc *sj>c,it, The name of the Governor
N Wolcott nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu