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   DV Henkel-Wallace, 20 May 2003 @ 9:39am

   
   

   link is blank for me

   At least, a big blank area where the article should be.

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   Michael Ward, 20 May 2003 @ 10:14am

   
   

   scanning machines / Rocky Mountain News

   The page comes up blank for me, too, and with a couple of minutes poking around I still couldn't find a link elsewhere on their site.
   This -may- be the newspaper's take on the story of a few days ago about the scanner installed at Stanford, currently converting the CSLI archives into digital form. Other interesting projects include Benetech.org in Palo Alto, scanning books for the blind and limited-vision, and the venture MIT and HP put together to digitize the MIT Press backlist, using auto scanners and digital character recognition with a high claimed accuracy.
   Our experience at Hidden Knowledge, in digitizing public-domain books for publication as e-books, has been that commercial OCR software is still inadequate and not getting better very fast. OTOH, as storage becomes cheaper and cheaper it becomes more reasonable to store digital images of the pages, say monochrome at 600 dpi.
   Mike

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