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DeepSeek OCR

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990 points pierre | 4 comments | 20 Oct 25 06:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.823s | source
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ellisd ◴[20 Oct 25 08:22 UTC] No.45641234[source]▶
The paper makes no mention of Anna’s Archive. I wouldn’t be surprised if DeepSeek took advantage of Anna’s offer granting OCR researchers access to their 7.5 million (350 TB) Chinese non-fiction collection ... which is bigger than Library Genesis.

https://annas-archive.org/blog/duxiu-exclusive.html

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1. ikamm ◴[20 Oct 25 11:48 UTC] No.45642836[source]▶
Why do they need to grant access for people to use copies of books they don’t own?
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2. JohnLocke4 ◴[20 Oct 25 12:39 UTC] No.45643228[source]▶
Not to rationalize it, but it appears that they're gatekeeping the dataset to get access to the OCR-scans from the people they choose to share it with. This is to improve their existing service by making the content of books (and not just their title/tags) searchable.

As per the blog post: >What does Anna’s Archive get out of it? Full-text search of the books for its users.

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3. ikamm ◴[20 Oct 25 14:15 UTC] No.45644161[source]▶
Fair enough, it just seems like they're painting an even bigger target on their backs by restricting access to copyrighted material they don't own the rights to
4. est ◴[21 Oct 25 06:22 UTC] No.45653004[source]▶
> The books from Duxiu have long been pirated on the Chinese internet. Usually they are being sold for less than a dollar by resellers. They are typically distributed using the Chinese equivalent of Google Drive, which has often been hacked to allow for more storage space

Ownership laundering.