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Article: Universal access to every book.(News)(Carnegie Mellon University used Optical character recognition technology from ABBYY Software House)(Brief article)
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- February 1, 2008
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The Million Book Project, an international undertaking led by Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu), has reached the milestone of having digitized 1.5 million books. The project seeks to digitize the published works of humankind so they are available electronically, free of charge. The ultimate goal is to make all published works available to anyone at any time and in any language.
In a news release at its Web site, Carnegie Mellon reports that for the first time since the project began in 2002, all of the digitized books can be accessed through a single Web portal, ulib.org, The Universal Digital Library Collection.
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