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OPTIMIZING ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS: A Crash Course in OCR.

Authors :
Adamich, Tom
Source :
Computers in Libraries; Oct2021, Vol. 41 Issue 8, p21-24, 4p, 9 Color Photographs
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of using optical character recognition (OCR) and machine learning in digitizing rare American Civil War letters and make them accessible to library users.

Subjects

Subjects :
COMPUTER software
USER interfaces
LIBRARIES
ACCESS to information
INFORMATION resources
COMPUTER input-output equipment
ARCHIVES
IMAGE retrieval
SCANNING systems
WORLD Wide Web

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10417915
Volume :
41
Issue :
8
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Computers in Libraries
Publication Type :
Periodical
Accession number :
152754371

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