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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
Peer reviewedTaghva, Kazem; And Others – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Discusses the use of optical character recognition (OCR) for inputting documents in an information retrieval system and describes a study that used an OCR-generated database and its corresponding corrected version to examine query evaluation in the presence of noisy data. Scanning technology, recognition technology, and retrieval technology are…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Data Processing, Databases, Evaluation Methods
Document Image Automation, 1993
Describes new information processing developments and end-user products from 18 companies. Applications include optical storage and imaging devices, document management software, and automated business and data processing systems. Developments include flat-screen images, affordable image item processing, digital writing technology, and a federal…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Computer Software, Federal Government, Information Management
Download full textInternational Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Ottawa (Ontario). International Office for Universal Dataflow & Telecommunications. – 1995
The Universal Dataflow and Telecommunications (UDT) Occasional Papers distribute information on the use of networking, information technology and telecommunications by and of interest to the international library community. This occasional paper is comprised of three papers related to technologies in Russian libraries: (1) "The First Russian…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Character Recognition, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1998
The sixth session of IT@EDU98 consisted of seven papers on the topic of the learning machine--Vietnamese based human-computer interface, and was chaired by Phan Viet Hoang (Informatics College, Singapore). "Knowledge Based Approach for English Vietnamese Machine Translation" (Hoang Kiem, Dinh Dien) presents the knowledge base approach,…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Character Recognition, Color, Educational Technology
Lunin, Lois F.; And Others – Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 1992
The three articles in this special section on document image files discuss intelligent character recognition, including comparison with optical character recognition; selection of displays for document image processing, focusing on paperlike displays; and imaging hardware, software, and vendors, including guidelines for system selection. (MES)
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Check Lists, Comparative Analysis, Computer Peripherals
Green, Christopher F. – 1996
This paper examines problems faced by visually-impaired secondary pupils in gaining access to information in print. The ever-increasing volume of information available inundates the sighted and is largely inaccessible in print format to the visually impaired. Important issues of availability for the visually impaired include whether information is…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Audiotape Recordings, Braille
