[ih] Fwd: Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing Texts

[Joly MacFie]

but not before many here were born :)

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 Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing
Texts<http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/12/before-you-were-born-we-were-digitizing-texts/>
12/19/2012 01:48 PM EST

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 [...]


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