English subtitles for clip: File:Internet-archive-brewster-kahle-2013-0329.webm

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This is the scanning center of the Internet Archive.

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We operate about 30 of these in eight countries.

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Most of them are smaller, a couple of them are larger.

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In this one we're doing books, microfilm and movie film.

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We designed and built our own scanners. We tried the robots,

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couldn't get them to work. Umm, there's two professional-grade

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digital cameras, museum-grade lighting, and they raise and

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lower glass to go and get a really good image, to flatten the image.

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You could and go and take more pictures and then try to get rid of it with software,

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but it ends up looking all kind of crappy, well, kind of like, well Google Books.

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Umm, so we are really interested in getting really, really good images,

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and then we crop, deskew, upload, process them for about 12 hours,

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to go into optical character recognition as well as compression

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into different formats, PDF. Then we make it available to the MOBI

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for Kindle and different kinds of ePubs for the Nooks, etc.

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And if it's Public Domain anybody can download them in bulk.

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We actively <i>encourage</i> people like Aaron Swartz to go and download

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millions of books at a time. We publish tools on how to do it.

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This is what libraries are for! So we think that there's a reason

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that we should be accessible in bulk as well as one-sy, two-sy.

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This is a movie scanner. You know, this is YouTube before YouTube, right.

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These are home movies, often, and they give a very direct view

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of what it is the 20th century was like. We have a very visual generation,

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so when I think of my generation, myself as very literate, literature-oriented

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towards imagining and understanding what the world was like, but if we

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can basically use moving images as a mechanism to understand what

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the world was like, that communicates with this new generation.