11.0298 searching mss.?

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:34:11 +0100 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 298.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:59:59 +0100 (BST)
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: searching manuscripts?

On behalf of a colleague I would like to collect any information about
current work in making manuscript images searchable by computer. I recall
someone describing how it was possible to calculate with fair degree of
accuracy the location on a mss. page-image of a specified word. I don't mean
searching a transcription, then displaying the mss. page for the
corresponding form to be located by eye, but a technique that would fetch up
the page and point to the location.

Thanks for any hints.

WM

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