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<div style="font-weight:bold;font-size:120%;margin:0 0 0.3em;padding:0"><a href="http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/12/before-you-were-born-we-were-digitizing-texts/" target="_blank">Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing Texts</a></div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 0.3em;padding:0">We are all pretty familiar with the process of scanning texts to produce page images and converting them using optical character recognition to full-text indexing and searching. But electronic texts have a far older-pedigree. Text digitization in the cultural heritage sector started in earnest in 1971, when the first Project Gutenberg text — the United [...]</div>
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