Google's glorious preservation of the knowledge of the world
Yeah, it's a difficult text to OCR. 180 years old, with decorative type, gothic, dirty pages, library stamps and all. But you know it's not going well when the text starts wlth dg cribimg høw lt w4s carcfully scannod:
This is a digital copy of a book that was prcscrvod for gcncrations on library shclvcs bcforc it was carcfully scannod by Google as pari of a projcct
That's the easy part, the part that was obviously written by Google, then printed out, put on a wooden table and photographed back in to be 0CRd.
So behold the text:
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To be fair, it doesn't go on quite as bad. Most of the book is recognizable as something vaguely resembling German if not comprehensible text:
3n biefcm ^tinji)) ip bie 5(u§fü^ning jebct gto§ättigen 3bee
moglid^. 3)le 9lu8tottung i^ert^eetenbet «Jltanf^eiten , fd&ablic^et
3nfeften, bie 5SetebIung, ittaftigung unb Setfc^onetung beö
menf(f)fid^en Äor^jerS. ®ie 23eri5;fitung öon 3Äange!, UeBetfd^ttjem*
mung unb einet SRenge anbetet Uebel ijl nut allein in bet @e*
meiufd^aft mpglic^. 6d^on batum, tt?eit alle befannte S^Jtad^en
gtofe lln\)oUfommen^eiten an ftd^ ^aUn, ifl eS' not^injenbig, tint
ganj mm, fd^one, too^lfUngenbe, öoUfommcne ©^tad^e gu etjtn*
ben. Unb U>enn bie ßtfinbung betfelben mSglid^ ift, h?arum follte
bie 5lnu>enbung betfelben nic^t mogfid^ fei^n; JD^ne baö $tinjip
bet ©emeinfd^aft ifl biefe freilid^ nid&t moglid^.
HfUinl bie ©egtiffe. ©^tad^en, (^tenjen unb QSatetlanb finb bet
' ?Kenfd[;^eit fo ttjejiig not^h?enbig, al3 alle befte^enben teligtefen
JDogmen. 9ltle biefe Segtiffe finb ^etjäi;tte Uebetll^fmingen, beten
SWad^ti^eil immet fü^Ibatet n>itb je länget fle Befielen.
There are 288 pages of this shit. Obviously Google has completely cut out any humans from the library-to-internet pipeline