Ministry of Innovation / Business of Technology  Internet
Archive posts millions of historic images to Flickr  Dating from
1500 to 1922, these images are now free and searchable.  Image
from page 400 of "Breeder and sportsman" (1882).  Earlier this
year, communications technology scholar Kalev Leetaru began
culling over 14 million images from the Internet Archive’s
public domain ebooks and uploading them to the Internet
Archive’s Flickr account. As of today, 2.6 million images are
now easily searchable and downloadable.  When the Internet
Archive originally scanned the books, they used Optical
Character Recognition (OCR), which made the book text
searchable, but that didn’t mean much if you were looking for
images. So Leetaru wrote some software to take advantage of the
OCR program that the Internet Archive had used to scan public
domain works published and written between 1500 and 1922.
According to the BBC, the OCR program scanned the books and
discarded sections of the text that it recognized as images. L