Luis von Ahn and colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University are using CAPTCHAs to decipher words that have stumped optical readers trying to digitise old books.
Now transcribing 10m words a day, equivalent of 150,000 books a year, equivalent to 37,500 full-time workers.
'The Power of Unwitting Workers', HBR Oct 09
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