Dear All,
Please find below details of a conference and exhibtion organised by
Cimtech with a special offer for academics, librarians and publishers. All
enquiries to the address sited in the message below.
Simon Tanner
Higher Education Digitisation Service.
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Recognition Technology for Data Entry, Forms Processing and Digital
Document Management
Conference and Exhibition - 23rd April 1998
Fielder Centre, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
SPECIAL OFFER FOR ACADEMICS, LIBRARIANS AND PUBLISHERS
If you are interested in taking advantage of our special rates for
academics and attending the above conference and exhibition, please respond
to this email by letting us have your full mailing address and we will
forward you further details by return.
There are options to attend either the full conference, the afternoon
session or just the exhibition. The full programme is shown below. One of
the afternoon speakers is Simon Tanner of the Higher Education Digitisation
Service (HEDS) discussing issues relating to the digitisation of academic
material.
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Sue Jenkins
Cimtech, University of Hertfordshire
45 Grosvenor Road
St Albans, Herts AL1 3AW
Tel: 01727 813651 Fax: 01727 813649
Email: [log in to unmask]
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PROGRAMME
Morning session
09.00 Registration and coffee, exhibition opens
09.30 Chairman's remarks
Tony Hendley, Technical Director, Cimtech Ltd
09.35 Automated data capture-a state of the art review of the key
applications and technologies: forms processing and full text document
capture, scanning, barcode reading, OCR/ICR, OMR, pattern and voice
recognition
Tony Hendley, Technical Director, Cimtech Ltd
10.10 The business case for recognition technologies-positioning
recognition technology against the alternatives for data capture, EDI,
electronic forms, direct data input, the practical benefits of recognition
Dave Garnett, Project Manager, Input Systems, Companies House
10.45 Coffee and exhibition visit
11.30 Implementing cost-effective document/data entry subsystems:
optimising the flow of documents and data from preparation through
scanning, indexing, recognition, validation and data export
John Sturt, Transcript Systems Division, Hays DEI
12.10 Measuring and improving the accuracy of recognition systems. What do
we mean by accuracy? How do you measure and improve it? How do you combine
recognition options to improve accuracy? A case study showing a practical
approach to the issues discussed.
Dr Ian Galbraith, Independent Consultant
Afternoon session
14.30 From paper to the web with Acrobat Capture-reviewing the options for
full text document capture
Chris Lupton, Chora Systems Ltd
15.00 From paper to full-text data base at Zeneca Agrochemicals-a case study
Sue Holland, Zeneca Agrochemicals and David Dawes, Managing Director,
Intrafed International Ltd
15.30 Getting started with a networked document management system: lessons
learnt during a large backfile conversion project
Derek Pope, Information Project Manager, Unilever Research
16.00 Tea and exhibition visit
16.30 From paper to marked up electronic publications-a case study
Suzanne Richter-Wills, Xerox Business Services
17.00 Issues relating to the digitisation of academic material-book
scanning, greyscale imaging, recognition, quality issues, format standards
Simon Tanner, Consultant, The Higher Education Digitisation Service
(HEDS)
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Sue Jenkins
Cimtech Ltd
University of Hertfordshire
45 Grosvenor Road
St Albans
Herts AL1 3AW
Tel: 01727 813651
Fax: 01727 813649
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Simon Tanner Email: [log in to unmask]
Digitisation Consultant Phone: 01707 286078
Higher Education Digitisation Service Fax: 01707 286079
University of Hertfordshire Web: http://heds.herts.ac.uk
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