von Ahn: reCAPTCHA digitized 2 to 3 million books annually
Luis von Ahn · a16z Podcast | The Taxonomy of Collective Knowledge · Jan 2, 2019 · at 15:45
Luis von Ahn, founder of reCAPTCHA and Duolingo, details the total historical volume of pre-digital books and reCAPTCHA's digitizing throughput.
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“There are a hundred million books that needed to be digitized. That was the total number of books that has ever been written, you know, before the digital era was one hundred million. At the pace that we were going, we were able to digitize about two to three million books a year.”
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