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ERIC Number: EJ393955
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Keyless Entry: Building a Text Database Using OCR Technology.
Grotophorst, Clyde W.
Library Hi Tech, v7 n1 p7-15 1989
Discusses the use of optical character recognition (OCR) technology to produce an ASCII text database. A tutorial on digital scanning and OCR is provided, and a systems integration project which used the Calera CDP-3000XF scanner and text retrieval software to construct a database of dissertations at George Mason University is described. (four references) (MES)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Character Recognition, Computer Software, Databases, Higher Education, Information Technology, Optical Scanners
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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