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Archive: December 2012 (1 Post)

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Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing Texts

Posted by: Leslie Johnston

We are all pretty familiar with the process of scanning texts to produce page images and converting them using optical character recognition to full-text indexing and searching. But electronic texts have a far older-pedigree. Text digitization in the cultural heritage sector started in earnest in 1971, when the first Project Gutenberg text — the United …