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Optical character recognition in microfilmed newspaper library collections. A feasibility study

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Abstract

VTT Tiedotteita - Meddelanden - Research Notes 1592 ; The aim of the OCR Index project was to investigate the feasibility of optical character recognition (OCR) in generating full text indexes for newspaper collections. The project comprised a literature survey and a controlled experiment with 35 mm microfilm frames and original newspaper pages. The test material was scanned with a microfilm scanner and a A4 size page scanner. The resulting image files were processed by OCR software ...

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