High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. Google`s Library Project, also now known as Google Book Search, was announced in December 2004.