Google Books plain text version released

When talking about Google's book search project, you have to mention Google's ultimate task, that is, to index the world's information and make them accessible to everyone. These two steps are carried out at the same time. Both Google's search engine and graph book search are indexing information from all over the world. To make it easier for people to obtain information, in addition to releasing them for free, Google may also use certain technologies. Take the book search as an example. Previously, we could only browse and scan versions of books. It is not easy to extract some of them. If Google converts a book to a pure text version, the problem can be solved. This is obviously not a problem for Google in terms of technology.

Google announced today that it has added the text-only reading model to book search. When you find copyrighted books (such as classical Classics) in Google's book search, you will find that you can read them in plain text. Take the "Two Cities" of Dickson as an example:

You can click "read only text" to view only the content of a pure text version:

Of course, because it is in plain text format, you can copy the content at will. The appearance of the plain text model also gives more people, including those with visual impairment, the opportunity to get knowledge from Google Book Search, because the plain text can support multiple types of text readers, for example, a text reading tool, a screen reader, and a Braille display. This also initially achieves the goal of Google, because this method allows more people to obtain information.

If you still remember, Google launched a special version of the search engine Google accessible web search for people with visual disabilities in last July. Now, the pure text reading mode of book search uses similar technologies, also from Google's senior expert t. V. Raman.

At present, Chinese books have not yet found such a reading mode, including The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Here we can see Romance of Three Kingdoms