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Peer reviewedKrishnamoorthy, M.; And Others – Library Hi Tech, 1993
Describes a project conducted at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York) that developed methods for automatically subdividing pages from technical journals into smaller semantic units for transmission, display, and further processing in an electronic environment. Topics discussed include optical scanning and image compression, digital image…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Optical Scanners, Scholarly Journals, Semantics
Peer reviewedGrotophorst, Clyde W. – Library Hi Tech, 1989
Discusses the use of optical character recognition (OCR) technology to produce an ASCII text database. A tutorial on digital scanning and OCR is provided, and a systems integration project which used the Calera CDP-3000XF scanner and text retrieval software to construct a database of dissertations at George Mason University is described. (four…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Character Recognition, Computer Software, Databases
