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Amazon.com: The C.S. Lewis Index: A Comprehensive Guide to Lewis's Writings and Ideas

Amazon.com: The C.S. Lewis Index: A Comprehensive Guide to Lewis's Writings and Ideas, via Google Print, via Adam Langley. I'm trying to find a line from one of Lewis' Narnia books using Google Print and came across this book.

Update: Holy crap, how does Google highlight the word you searched for within the image of the page of the book??

Ha, Google Print OCR'd "Aslan" as "Asian" all over the Chronicles of Narnia. But I still can't find the gorram quote I'm looking for.

Update: Found the quote.

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Lincoln wrote:

word highlighting is easy. highlighting on a phrase is not so easy unless you have the exact phrase. Google build the "image" on the fly?

∴ Lincoln | 11-Nov-2005 5:42pm est | #8661

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Google build the "image" on the fly?

Doesn't seem so. They seem to be direct scans. They have the original pagination and formatting and even any original art that's in the book. I'm really at a loss as to how they did it.

Keith | 11-Nov-2005 7:18pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #8663

Elling wrote:

It's OCR, man....

They scan the pages, apply OCR, and remember the position of the different words.

Probably all there is to it, I think. Smiley

∴ Elling | 12-Nov-2005 11:19am est | #8664

Keith (http://keithdevens.com/) wrote:

You're probably right. It just seems so much like magic to me Smiley I guess they could remember the coordinates of every single word. They even manage to highlight phrases across punctuation and such. One thing I did notice -- in that link, the word "analogical" is split across two lines as "ana-", "logical". The search picks it up as "analogical", but the highlighter catches "ana-" on one line, but not "logical" on the next.

Keith | 12-Nov-2005 12:07pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #8668

DJ Hannibal wrote:

It just seems so much like magic to me

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
---Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961

∴ DJ Hannibal | 12-Nov-2005 10:05pm est | #8669

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