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How to Digitize a Book
The new system, called recapture became an even ger hit. There are some people who are a little nervous about google being the owner of one of the most widely used captiore systems. The number of words that were digitizing per day is really, really large. It's about a hundred million a day, which is the equivalent of about two and a half million books a year. And this is all being done one word at a time by just people typing catches on the ind in it.
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