The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 11, March 14, 2004, Article 9

MILLION BOOK PROJECT UPDATE

  In prior E-Sylum issues, we have mentioned the Million Book
  Project at Carnegie Mellon University - see v6n10, March 9,
  2003.   Ed Snible writes: "Numismatic titles downloadable
  from the Million Book Project now include:

  Numismatic Chronicle (1872, 1897, 1902, 1907, 1909,
  and 1913)

  Catalogue Of The Coins In The Indian Museum Calcutta
  (1907)

  Catalogue Of Coins In The Provincial Museum Lucknow.
  Vol. I. (1914)

  Catalogue Of Coins In The Panjab Museum, Lahore
  Vols. I and II. (1920)

  Gold And Silver Coins Of Sultans Of Delhi (1974)

  Kakatiya Coins And Measures (1975)

  A Catalogue Of The Ikshvku Coins In The Ap Govt Museum
  (1979)

  Carnegie Mellon University's Million Book Project hopes to
  have one  million titles available for download by 2005.
  Fourteen scanning centers in India have scanned 50,000 titles
  as of January 2004.  The project hopes to reach its goal by
  expanding to 100 scanning centers, each operating two shifts a
  day.

  Million Book Project (Archive.org)
  Million Book Project (Carnegie Mellon)

  The Project plans to have eventually have OCR for every title.
  [OCR = Optical Character Recognition.  This takes an image
  and figures out what the letters and words are, so the document
  can be searched.  -Editor]

  The titles I tried did were not searchable.  Scanned quality of
  text was high, although sometimes tilted.  Unfortunately the
  photographic plates are low quality.

  (Thanks to Adam Philippidis for some information)."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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