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Recognition Technology for data entry and document management
One day conference and exhibition - 26th June 1997
Are you interested in digitising some of your document collections and
making them available on the Web or CD-ROM? This conference and exhibition
covers all the latest technologies for scanning, digitising and converting
your paper archives into online searchable databases.
In the afternoon, Track 2 is targeted at librarians and publishers. It
looks at how to define your requirements and profiles the work of the
Higher Education Digitisation Centre (HEDC), offering advice on how to
scan scholarly material.
As a special offer Cimtech (one of the partners in HEDC) is offering
librarians and information specialists a significant discount on attendance
at the event. If you wish to visit the exhibition, have lunch and attend
Track 2 in the afternoon, you can book for just £65!
If you would like to attend the main conference in the morning and Track 2
in the afternoon, then your discount delegate fee is just £120 (full price
£195). The programme for Track 2 is shown below.
Programme - Track 2
14.00 Defining your requirements for full text document capture - text
capture, page
capture, page structure recognition
Ross Dixon, Pindar plc
14.40 The Higher Education Digitisation Centre - meeting the conversion
needs of the
higher education community
Di Martin, Project Director, University of Hertfordshire and Ian Bryson,
International Imaging Ltd
15.20 Tea
15.50 Issues when digitising books, manuscripts and scholarly
material–preparation,
handling, scanning, recognition, compression, storage formats
Michael Alexander, Document and Image Processing Manager, British Library
Information Systems
16.25 From paper archive to subject database with pattern recognition and
text searching
Sarah McKinnon, Marketing Director, Excalibur Technologies International Ltd
17.10 Discussion
17.30 Close
If you would like to attend the above conference or receive fuller details,
please contact:
Sue Jenkins at [log in to unmask] Cimtech Limited
University of Hertfordshire
Telephone: 01727 813651 45 Grosvenor Road
Facsimile: 01727 813649 St. Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 3AW
Remember to include full address, billing and contact details.
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Simon Tanner Email: [log in to unmask]
Digitisation Consultant Phone: 01727 813664
Higher Education Digitisation Centre Fax: 01727 813649
University of Hertfordshire
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