Google bringing search to historical manuscripts | InfoWorld | News | 2006-02-10 | By Nancy Gohring, IDG News ServiceHistory buffs can search George Washington’s manuscripts online today for terms like “revolution,” but only thanks to the tireless workers who transcribed the hand-written documents into digital form.
Soon, many other hand-written historical documents could be made available for the public to search — and through considerably less effort — if a research project funded by Google (Profile, Products, Articles) and being executed by three universities works out as planned.
The project, announced by Dublin City University (DCU) on Thursday …
… is an unfortunate piece of credulous puffery. Microsoft has patiently invested tens of millions of dollars in handwriting recogntion over a period of many years. It’s still tough. Google is very late to the game.
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