A $200,000 bounty has been offered for individuals who can develop a method to retrieve the full scanned content of Google Books.

Google Books has digitized millions of titles, but many of the scanned pages are only searchable as brief excerpts.

The bounty, announced by the Annas Archive, invites developers and researchers to submit a prototype that can scale to provide complete book scans. Participants are encouraged to contact the organization early with their solution. The offer also applies to comparable large collections held by AI companies, especially those that include rare books.

The initiative seeks to expand public access to digitized literature while preserving the original scan integrity.