The Internet Archive, already well-loved by many art historians as a source of high quality online versions of many out-of-print books, has a new project to make images from the uploaded books available online via flickr. The BBC story reports that the process used involved inverting the way in which the software used to scan books worked: As part of the process (of scanning books as texts), the software recognised which parts of a page were pictures in order to discard them. Mr Leetaru’s code used this information to go back…