I note that AT&T have developed what they claim to be a new and wonderful
form of document storage called DjVu (pronounced deja vue). They make the
interesting claim that file sizes can be not much greater than the
equivalent text in HTML. The examples they show (Declaration of
Independence!) are impressive, of course.
Anyone have more insight?
http://djvu.research.att.com/home_mstr.htm
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Stephen Crawshaw
Townsville, Australia.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Midgley
Date: Monday, 2 November 1998 4:05
Subject: Re: Scanners
>[log in to unmask],Net writes:
>>>we have just changed to a "paperport strobe" scanner
>>>which runs "Visioneer" software. this is a paper feed system
>>>by hand, and allows you to scan fast. Approx 50 pagfes 10/15 mins.
>Tomorrow's system will deal with paper, old and new[1], in a fashion
>not noticeably more time consuming than dealing with proper electronic
>text, and will allow the info on paper to be addd to the record with
>little more difficulty if any than filing it, and retrieved with much
>less difficulty.
(...)
>We may be stuck with PDF, Paperport will produce PDFs but they are
>locked against change, has anyone a way of turning them into ones that
>can be OCR'd offline and used as images with the OCR and filing ASCII
>only done if a need arises?
>
>I suspect the work of OCRing and then correcting is usually
>unjustified,
(...)
>
>MUltiple document interfaces are needed for medical record browsers
>though, IMHO, hence my sticking to Opera. Using several instances of
>IE or Netscape gets confusing, particularly if one has records
>belonging to more than one patient on the screen
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