Anna's Archive offers $200,000 bounty for scalable Google Books extraction method
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This is a bounty announcement from Anna's Archive, offering $200,000 for a method to systematically download all scanned books from Google Books at scale. The post explains that Google Books has many scanned books but only exposes them as small snippets through search, and invites researchers to find a scalable method to extract them. It directs readers to read the bounty guidelines before working on the bounty.
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Hacker NewsAnna's Archive offers $200,000 bounty for scalable Google Books extraction methodsoftware.annas-archive.glKey quotes
· 3 pulledGoogle Books has lots of scanned books, but which are only exposed through search, where it shows up as tiny snippets around the search results.
If you've found a method that you believe will scale up, then please...
Please read https://annas-archive.li/volunteering#bounties carefully before working on a bounty.
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