Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 23.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 09:56:41 +0100
From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 17.022 a digitization robot
I bet it costs more than a student worker.
Monday's New York Times included an interesting article on an impressive
>new automated scanning machine in use at Stanford University. The machine
>literally turns the pages of books of every format while scanning to
>graphic images or OCR text of extraordinarily high quality. The potential
>for automating the conversion of large quantities of text is immediately
>obvious
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