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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
