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Digitizing Legacy Documents: A Knowledge-Base Preservation Project

Elizabeth Anderson, Robert Atkinson, Cynthia Crego, Jean Slisz, Sara Tompson

cs.DLarXiv:cs/9811020

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of making legacy information (that material held in paper format only) electronically searchable and retrievable. We used proprietary software and commercial hardware to create a process for scanning, cataloging, archiving and electronically disseminating full-text documents. This process is relatively easy to implement and reasonably affordable.

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