Article: The Current State-of-art in Newspaper Digitization: A Market Perspective

Yes, this is an old article (Jan. 2008), but not out of date. It is worth perusing, especially if you're into newspaper digitization. The article is the result of research and surveys conducted with newspaper digitizaton program and vendors. It discusses (in somewhat of a bird's eye view):

• Market parties
• Digital imaging
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Zoning and segmentation
• Metadata
• Searchability
• Presentation

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Technorati tags: Digitization, Newspaper