Google Helps Bring Yad Vashem Holocaust Archives to the Web
Google announced that it teamed up with Jerusalem-based Holocaust-remembrance center Yad Vashem to make its collection of documents and photographs available online.
More than 130,000 images are available in full resolution via a custom search engine, and the text on many of the images has been transcribed using experimental optical-character-recognition technology
Software engineer Eyal Fink and Yossi Matias, head of Google’s Israel research-and-development center, posted on the Google Blog:
On a trip to Jerusalem three years ago, (Google senior vice president of product management) Jonathan Rosenberg visited Yad Vashem.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in