The Future of Book Clubs

Robots and humans are teaming up to solve text puzzles that help decode the hardest words in books. Carnegie Mellon and Google collaborated on a new system called re-capture. Once you program that is pretty seamless, it's not that hard to have a machine run this once you get it going. If three users gave the same answer, the book word was considered solved and added to a digitized book. if six users in a row all gave up on a book word, it got filed as unreadable and either just left blurry in the book or they tried some other kind of re-scanning of the text to get a better picture.