2006-08-30

Google Books in PDF


Wow this will blow some minds, especially over at the British Library. Google offers pdf download of out-of-copyright books.

Some concerns, though. The pdf format chosen is far from standard and it consists of a bunch of scanned images. This disallows format conversion or text extraction without advanced OCR.

One more effort, google.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yea, the image format suck big time. i can't extract txt for my palm.

Unknown said...

ABBYY FineReader 8 will do the job.