What is OCR and when should it be used?

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the technology of analyzing image elements (pixels) and converting them to a text code such as ASCII (numbers). The advantages of OCR are significant since computers can store a digital image as a pattern of pixels, but cannot...

Some background information on Microfilm

John Benjamin Dancer has been credited as the first inventor of microfilm in 1839.  The first patent for microfilm was granted to a French optician, Rene Dagron, in 1859 where the first practical use of microfilm was espionage.  The first commercial use of microfilm...

Digitizing historical documents and books

The Declaration of Independence was written on parchment.   Parchment is writing material made from animal skin. The process to make parchment is quite involved; however, relative to paper or hemp, it is very durable.   Parchment documents have been known to survive...

Scanning and Digitizing Law Enforcement Records

The management, storage, sharing and retrieving of information has long been a vital activity of law enforcement.   The efficiencies dramatically increase within a department that has full digital record storage and retention.   The more readily and easily that...
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