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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