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Re: Digitizing Records from Microfilm



Thanks for your reply--it helps!

>>> <LewinJim@CS.COM> 06/15/00 05:10PM >>>
OCR software will probably not do what you hope it will.  Under best of
circumstances, you can only hope for a 90% to 95% accuracy rate, and that
will drop significantly if you try to apply it to handwritten records.
(Indeed, we tried that for one of our clients--a major group of museums here
in Washington that shall remain nameless--and just gave up.)

We have just finished converting a collection of more than 20,000 microfilmed
documents to digital for another museum & found that a solution was creating
an indexed/searchable imagebase.  It was a project, and took significant
man-hours to complete. Obviously, I am a bit biased, but my experience has
been that it is often more cost-effective, and usually more efficient, to
send such a project to an experienced, professional organization than it is
to attempt it in-house.

Jim Lewin
President
Image Delivery Systems
1101 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20003
vox: 202.544.6884
fax: 202.544.6889
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