Hacker News Reader

This is sort of tangential, but: it doesn't make any sense that there's OCR going on in that process. Surely Amazon could just ask for the digital version of the book as a requirement for SearchInside participation?

View on HN

Not sure how the specifics of this works on amazon but when I read it initially I assumed the results were returned as images which seems to make a little bit more sense, although possibly not that much.

Although reading it again it does seem to be quite unclear...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com