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Optical Character Recognition:A Solution for the Data Entry Bottleneck


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Gives an introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and its potential applications in bibliographic databases. Gives an overview of OCR technology and highlights its advantage in the application to data entry. A also discusses the parameters to be considered in the evaluation of OCR software.

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Optical Character Recognition, OCR, Data Entry, Bibliographic Data Base, Softwares, Evaluation.
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Devika V. Aptagiri
Institute of Information Studies, 702, 'Upstairs' 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010
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Devika V. Aptagiri
Institute of Information Studies, 702, 'Upstairs' 42nd Cross, III Block, Rajajinagar, Bangalore 560 010, India

Abstract


Gives an introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and its potential applications in bibliographic databases. Gives an overview of OCR technology and highlights its advantage in the application to data entry. A also discusses the parameters to be considered in the evaluation of OCR software.

Keywords


Optical Character Recognition, OCR, Data Entry, Bibliographic Data Base, Softwares, Evaluation.