I heard today, September 16, 2009, on Fox News that Google was acquired the company reCAPTCHA. This appears to be a good move for Google because reCAPTCHA provides services that provide Optical character recognition (OCR). This means that searching and deciphering a users input will be less tedious especially when using the Digital Libraries. I must admit, I do enjoy the auto spell feature on the Google site when I’m searching different topics. It makes me wonder if reCAPTCHA can be used as an added feature for online classes in such a way as to search the class contents for particular information. Does the OCR functionality have the capability to allow for a quick search throughout the online class for related text? I’m sure Google will explore every avenue possible to utilize this new product. I wonder how could the OCR benefit the distance education….
Read more at: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/09/google-boosts-book-digitization-by-capturing-recaptcha.ars
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