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A comparison of automatic and manual zoning

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In this paper, we study the effects of automatic zoning on retrieval and ranking variability. We will show that OCR-generated text from automatic zoning, followed by postprocessing, produces retrieval results equivalent to OCR-generated text from manual zoning. We further show that there is a strong linear association between the ranked query results obtained from these two methods of zoning.

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  1. Information Science Research Institute, P.O. Box 454021, NV 89154-4021, Las Vegas, USA

    Kazem Taghva, Julie Borsack, Steven Lumos & Allen Condit

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Received: 17 July 2003, Accepted: 18 October 2003, Published online: 6 February 2004

Information Science Research Institute: e-mail isri@isri.unlv.edu

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Taghva, K., Borsack, J., Lumos, S. et al. A comparison of automatic and manual zoning. IJDAR 6, 230–235 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-003-0116-x

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