[xtx23]

if they have Google's OCR tech, it would have been much better than it is. Wonder if Google ever thought about making a cloud OCR api product. it would align with their goals.

[dredmorbius]

OCR isn't even necessary. There's also The Internet Archive's BookReader which I noted recently:

https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader

GNU Affero Licence, on GitHub:

http://github.com/openlibrary/bookreader

[thrownaway2424]

Google gives away its OCR stack in the form of free software.