OCR in libraries – some practical remarks

Impact CoCDiscussions, Optical Character Recognition

Next, Günter Mühlberger of Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol (University and Regional Library Tyrol) talks about the situation with regard to full-text digitisation in Europe and elsewhere.  He notes that in Europe, OCR has not always been a standard part of the workflow, so there is much legacy digital material that has never been OCR’d – and more importantly not created for OCR.  He notes, however, that Americans have been more proactive in this field, citing JSTOR and Google Books as examples.