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Digitization, Coded Character Sets, and Optical Character Recognition for Multi-script Information Resources: The Case of the Letopis’ Zhurnal’nykh Statei

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2001)

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Multi-lingual information resources that consist of texts in more scripts than can be represented by a single 8-bit encoding scheme can currently be best represented by use of the Unicode multi-byte character-encoding scheme. However use of Unicode could lead to a decrease in the accuracy of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software because of the similarity of glyphs between certain scripts. This decrease in OCR accuracy can dramatically increase the amount of time needed to proofread the resulting electronic texts. An Indiana University - Digital Library Program project for digitizing a 20-year portion of the Letopis’ Zhurnal’nykh Statei is presented as an example of a digital library project dealing with a multi-script information resource for which Unicode has been used.

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  1. Digital Library Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

    George Andrew Spencer

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Leof. Knossou, P.O. Box 1470, 71409, Heraklion, Greece

    Panos Constantopoulos

  2. Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Computer Science, Vassilika Vouton, P.O. Box 1385, 71110, Heraklion, Greece

    Panos Constantopoulos

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Ingeborg T. Sølvberg

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Spencer, G.A. (2001). Digitization, Coded Character Sets, and Optical Character Recognition for Multi-script Information Resources: The Case of the Letopis’ Zhurnal’nykh Statei . In: Constantopoulos, P., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44796-2_36

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