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CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Readability of scanned books in digital libraries
Displaying scanned book pages in a web browser is difficult, due to an array of characteristics of the common user's configuration that compound to yield text that is degrade...
Alexander J. Quinn, Chang Hu, Takeshi Arisaka, Ann...
JCDL
2006
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
A hierarchical, HMM-based automatic evaluation of OCR accuracy for a digital library of books
A number of projects are creating searchable digital libraries of printed books. These include the Million Book Project, the Google Book project and similar efforts from Yahoo an...
Shaolei Feng, R. Manmatha
ICDAR
2007
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Google Book Search: Document Understanding on a Massive Scale
Unveiled in late 2004, Google Book Search is an ambitious program to make all the world's books discoverable online. The sheer scale of the problem brings a number of unique ...
L. Vincent
JCDL
2009
ACM
166views Education» more  JCDL 2009»
13 years 11 months ago
Designing the reading experience for scanned multi-lingual picture books on mobile phones
This paper reports on an adaption of the existing PopoutText and ClearText display techniques to mobile phones. It explains the design rationale for a freely available iPhone appl...
Benjamin B. Bederson, Alexander J. Quinn, Allison ...
CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 4 months ago
How to carry over historic books into social networks
This paper describes how to make use of e-books that look like printed books in a knowledge network. After an overview of digitalization efforts and current digital library initia...
Heimo Müller, Hermann A. Maurer