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D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 Rose Holley |
How Good Can It Get? Analysing and Improving OCR Accuracy in Large Scale Historic Newspaper Digitization Programs This article details the work undertaken by the National Library of Australia Newspaper Digitisation Program on identifying and testing solutions to improve OCR accuracy in large scale newspaper digitisation programs.  |
D-Lib February 2008 Edwin Klijn |
The Current State-of-Art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective The market and technology adjust to accommodate the trend of newspaper collection digitization by libraries.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 Powell & Paynter |
Going Grey? Comparing the OCR Accuracy Levels of Bitonal and Greyscale Images Digitizing newspaper using 8-bit greyscale may improve optical character recognition (OCR).  |
PC Magazine February 3, 2004 M. David Stone |
OCR Packages Get Serious Abbyy and ScanSoft have both added more horsepower to their high-end suites, but one finished ahead by a nose in our tests.  |
PC World June 2005 Richard Jantz |
OCR Upgrade Fast but Not Foolproof Readiris Pro 10 works well on standard character-recognition tasks, but falls short on hand-printed text.  |
D-Lib February 2001 G. Sayeed Choudhury |
Strike Up the Score Deriving Searchable and Playable Digital Formats from Sheet Music...  |
Information Today September 2, 2010 |
IBM and the EU Collaborate on Digitization of Historic European Texts The project seeks to provide technology that will enable highly-accurate digitization of rare and culturally significant historical texts on a massive scale.  |
D-Lib March 2003 Arlitsch et al. |
The Utah Digital Newspapers Project This article describes a new method for digitizing historic newspapers, developed in a partnership between the University of Utah and two commercial organizations.  |
D-Lib January 2006 Linden & Green |
Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications Statistical digitization projects must make investments in adequate metadata and object-oriented design at the point of digitization - otherwise, the data are in danger of losing their context  |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Donnie Summerlin |
Selecting Newspaper Titles for Digitization at the Digital Library of Georgia This case study examines the Digital Library of Georgia's newspaper digitization selection process and how it incorporates national standards with its own project-specific criteria.  |
PC Magazine May 15, 2008 Edward Mendelson |
OmniPage Professional 16 This long-established app is an OCR powerhouse, but its confusing interface means it may not be the right choice for all users.  |
D-Lib March 2006 Choudhury et al. |
Document Recognition for a Million Books Transcription represents only one component of document recognition. The presence of a large-scale book image corpus significantly raises the possibilities for document recognition capabilities, especially given the potential for statistical inferences or analyses.  |
PC World August 23, 2006 Richard Jantz |
IRIS Serves Up Snappy, Accurate OCR Update of optical character recognition program could boost your office's productivity.  |
PC Magazine December 9, 2005 M. David Stone |
Abbyy FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition Abbyy FineReader 8.0 improves text recognition from books, PDF files, and digital photos.  |
PC Magazine May 15, 2008 Edward Mendelson |
ABBYY FineReader Professional 9.0 Abbyy FineReader OCR Professional makes it easy to turn scanned documents and PDFs into editable text.  |
Macworld March 2004 Christopher Breen |
Readiris Pro 9 OCR Application Offers Improved Accuracy, Has Some Quirks  |
PC Magazine September 29, 2005 M. David Stone |
OmniPage Professional 15 ScanSoft's OmniPage Professional 15 takes OCR programs into new territory.  |
PC World January 2006 Richard Jantz |
Abbyy OCR Pushes Paper Proficiently The FineReader 8.0 Professional Edition does a superior job of converting paper documents into digital files.  |
D-Lib March 2006 Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics.  |
D-Lib March 2006 Gregory Crane |
What Do You Do with a Million Books? The ability to extract from the stored record of humanity useful information in an actionable format for any given human being of any culture at any time and in any place will not emerge quickly, but the fundamental tools on which such a system would be built are moving forward.  |
Information Today September 15, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive.  |
Information Today November 2007 Jim Ashling |
Progress Report: The British Library and Microsoft Digitization Partnership Microsoft and The British Library (BL) plan to digitize 100,000 out of copyright titles and make them accessible via Microsoft's Live Search Books site.  |
Information Today February 21, 2008 |
Microsoft Utilizes ABBYY FineReader Engine for Live Search Books Microsoft selects FineReader Engine software development kit (SDK) to convert text from books to searchable electronic data.  |
Linux Journal July 1, 2007 Anthony Kay |
Tesseract: an Open-Source Optical Character Recognition Engine Tesseract is a quirky command-line tool that does an outstanding job of translating text images into actual text.  |
PC Magazine February 8, 2008 John C. Dvorak |
Computing's Final Frontiers The ultimate in machine translation is the gadget that translates what you say and speaks it in a foreign language. I am certain that the smart money has long since bailed out of these projects.  |
Information Today May 2, 2008 |
Old Bailey Proceedings Boosts Records Online More rich detailed historical sources have been added to the Proceedings of the Old Bailey online. The digitized collection now covers the years 1674 to 1913  |
D-Lib October 2005 Custard & Sumner |
Using Machine Learning to Support Quality Judgments Development of a computation model capable of detecting quality variations in digital library resources.  |
Macworld October 2002 Christopher Breen |
Inexpensive and Inaccurate OCR Application Fails to Make the Grade Although IRIS's Readiris Pro 7 is both sprightly and a breeze to use, it has a long way to go before it's as accurate as the Mac's current OCR leader, ScanSoft's OmniPage Pro X.  |
InternetNews February 5, 2009 Judy Mottl |
Google Mobilizes Its Book Collection Google takes initial step to bringing its library to mobile readership.  |
Macworld June 2002 Christopher Breen |
FineReader Pro 5 and OmniPage Pro X Get the Job Done -- with Your Help The current professional optical character recognition applications for the Mac -- Abbyy's FineReader Pro 5 and ScanSoft's OmniPage Pro X -- demonstrate that turning paper into pixels remains an imperfect process.  |
Information Today August 29, 2005 Barbara Quint |
CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered.  |
Information Today November 8, 2012 |
ProQuest Participates in Early Modern OCR Project The company will provide access to page images from the veritable Early English Books Online and newcomer Early European Books to the Early Modern OCR Project (eMOP) at Texas A&M.  |
The Motley Fool August 6, 2010 Wade Roush |
How to Banish Business Cards Dump your business cards and go digital.  |
Macworld May 9, 2005 Jennifer Berger |
IrisPen Executive In theory, the IrisPen Executive USB pen scanner is a great tool for people who do research, database entry, and other tasks. Unfortunately, the OCR scanner doesn't live up to its promises  |
BusinessWeek December 3, 2009 Stephen H. Wildstrom |
The Intel Reader: As Big a Boon as Braille? Intel's device for the blind or visually impaired combines a digital camera, OCR, and speech synthesis, with impressive results.  |
Information Today January 2, 2007 Robert E. Buntrock |
Google Tackles Patent Searching Google Patent Search, a beta service that provides access of more than 7 million U.S. patents.  |
Information Today September 5, 2006 Barbara Quint |
Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection.  |
PC Magazine October 18, 2010 Edward Mendelson |
Adobe Acrobat X The premier PDF creator and manager gets a massive overhaul, and the result is the fastest, most powerful, and easiest-to-use Acrobat ever.  |
PC Magazine June 2, 2008 Edward Mendelson |
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended Adobe's PDF juggernaut not only gets more powerful, but also smarter and easier to use in this public beta.  |
Information Today April 17, 2008 |
New Hebrew Collections Posted in Time for Passover The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books, a nonprofit organization devoted to the preservation of old Hebrew texts, announced the addition of two ancient collections of books to the society's website.  |
PC Magazine January 20, 2004 M. David Stone |
Create Columns Using Text Boxes In Word With text boxes, your graphics will stay where you put them in Microsoft Word.  |
Audiophilia February 2007 Roy Harris |
What Is Good Sound? Defining "good" sound quality of components and stereo systems.  |
PC World December 12, 2000 Richard Jantz |
Shoot and Scan with Philips's Unique Video Camera More than just a Webcam, this little Philips video camera also scans objects and portions of documents...  |
PC Magazine August 23, 2007 Edward Mendelson |
PDF Converter Professional 4 PDF Converter Professional 4 lacks the polish of Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard, but it has superior OCR and export features.  |
PC Magazine June 22, 2005 M. David Stone |
Undiscovered Microsoft Office Extras The leading productivity suite includes a slew of little-known but effective tools.  |
Information Today May 23, 2011 |
National Library of France Embarks on Huge Digitization Project The BnF, the National Library of France, has signed a new deal with the Jouve-Safig-Diadeis partnership for the digitization of its print collections.  |
Financial Planning September 1, 2008 Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Going Paperless More financial planners are starting to embrace the idea of using a document management system.  |
PC Magazine October 14, 2003 Jamie M. Bsales |
Better OCR Abbyy Software is upgrading its already first-rate OCR package.  |
PC World November 2003 Rebecca Freed |
Get Those Business Cards Into Your PC Three card scanners compete, with varying degrees of accuracy.  |
PC World August 8, 2006 Jennifer Berger, PC World |
First Look: Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 Voice-Recognition Software The latest edition of the venerable program is impressive but not perfect.  |