[geeks] Google catalog(ue)'s...

[Keith Campbell]

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:51:03AM +1100, Scott Howard wrote:
> > Funky!
> > http://catalogs.google.com/
> > (for those who speak english rather than american,
> > http://catalogues.google.com/ also works. :)
>
> I feel sorry for the poor schmucks who have to sit there
> with a scanner all day...
>
> Bill

Even back 15 years ago they had automatic scanners.  You just plunked a
stack of papers in the input bin and pushed a button.  The largest
manual task would be unbinding the catalogs.

I was working on OCR support for them back then, converting the pages
back into editable documents.