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Re:Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyp... by gregsadetsky on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @05:04PM (#24712717)
Yes they did, to help digitize Google Books and archives of NYT -- (from wikipedia) "The system helped to digitize the archives of The New York Times, and was subsequently used by Google Books for similar purposes" [0][1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/science/29recaptcha.html

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