17.028 a digitization robot

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 02:19:46 EDT

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                    Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 28.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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             Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 07:10:49 +0100
             From: Michael Hart <hart@beryl.ils.unc.edu>
             Subject: Re: 17.023 a digitization robot

    On Mon, 19 May 2003, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard
    McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:

    > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 23.
    > Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
    > www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
    > Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu
    >
    >
    >
    > Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 09:56:41 +0100
    > From: Norman Hinton <hinton@springnet1.com>
    > >
    > 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
    >
    >
    Did this end that abruptly?

    And, of course, the real 900 pound gorilla question no one will ask:

    "Will these be publicly accessible?"

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