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Michelle A. Paolillo, last updated on May 27, 2016
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An overview of computational analysis, and exploration of strategies and challenges.
Anatomy and Physiology of a Digital Book
- Two books - page images and companion OCR - (sample book from HTDL)
- What our eyes like to read is images
- What machines read needs to be constrained and predictable.
- Books have metadata -
- bibliographic (catalog view, MARC view)
- structural
- OCR - where does it come from?
- OCR issues
- language specific dictionaries
- font styles
- image resolution
- handwriting
We count words - tokenization; why tokenize?
- What is a word? (spaces are like any other character for a machine)
- What isn't a word?
- Punctuation
- page numbers
- headers/footers
- grammatical constructs of various languages (ex: negation, especially in French; passive reflexive in Spanish)