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lozenge on Nov 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: An OCR cliche: Into his/her anus (2009)

Google scanned 25 million books, and would show the user the original scan anyway. The text was only used for the search index.

dmm on Nov 4, 2018 [–]

Google also provides epubs, which show the OCRed text.

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