CMIC at INEX 2007: Book Search Track
Focused Access to XML Documents
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Proceedings of the 2008 ACM workshop on Research advances in large digital book repositories
Efficient Language-Independent Retrieval of Printed Documents without OCR
SPIRE '09 Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
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Large-scale, multi-terabyte digital libraries are becoming feasible due to decreasing costs ofstorage, CPU, and bandwidth. However, costs associated with preparing content for input intothe library remain high due to the amount of human labor required. This paper describes theDigital Microfilm Pipeline -- a sequence of image processing operations used to populate a large-scale digital library from a "mountain" of microfilm and reduce the human labor involved. Essential parts of the pipeline include algorithms for document zoning and labeling, consensus-based template creation, reversal of geometric transformations and Just-In-Time Browsing, an interactive technique for progressive access of image content over a low-bandwidth medium. We also suggest more automated approaches to cropping, enhancement and data extraction.