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		unimpressive on Feb 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 184 year-old Indian library goes digital, includin... It can always be transcribed later, the main thing is to get it digitized.

thewisedude on Feb 22, 2013 [–]

I concur, what is done is a step in the right direction. Once its digitized even scanned copies can be transcribed via some technology(may be OCR?) in the future if not now.

salman89 on Feb 22, 2013 | [–]

Not sure the state of OCR in other languages, especially obscure Indian ones. Might be cheaper to just have someone straight transcribe/translate these.

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