The robotic book scanning machine that is secretly scanning and digitizing millions of books for Google Books search is housed in a location near Chennai in India.
Google probably outsourced the book scanning jobs to India in an effort to reduce costs.
When there are no books to scan, this underground place called “Googl Browsing Center” offers services ranging from Wed Designing, Logo Design, PDF conversion, OCR Image Processing, Document Scanning, Laser Printing and ofcourse, Internet Browsing. via
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Reader Comments
Hello, i am a canadian book publisher.
I am interested in aquiring digital copies of rare books in the field of indology. I am very interested to find the company in india who has been hired by google to scan the rare books housed in Mysore University and try try and aquire digital copies of the books…any leads you can give me will be much appreciated.
Written by Akasha on 06.24.07