[Fwd: Re: Recent News--not exactly music]

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Joel Bresler wrote:
> 
> Judy,
> 
> I think your correspondent is mistaken about the technical aspects of this
> important project. My guess it that they are scanning the books and
> capturing "images" of the individual pages but NOT using character
> recognition to input the contents into a database or machine searchable
> corpus (the latter is a MUCH bigger task.)
> 
> There is no need for a markup and file format standard if they are taking
> the latter route.
> 
> Does anyone else know for sure?
> 
> Best, Joel
> 
> According to press release in this area (Hampshire Gazette--Northampton),  
> they  will be "scanning" the books and creating copies
one by one, as demand warrants.

Wolf