Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Online OCR Web Services

As you know that the most boring job for any librarian or Document manager is to convert the imaged PDF file in to text file means captured file such as digital photographs, scanned documents, printed books
But now most of your boring job will be easy with some web-based OCR services. Once you perform OCR on an image, you’ll be able to copy-paste or edit the text content of that image without any retyping and it also becomes more searchable. Most scanners ship with some sort of OCR software but if you don’t have a scanner, you can simply capture a photograph of the printed text with your digital camera or even your mobile phone and then use an online OCR utility to extract text out of that image.

Try Free Online OCR web service

NOW AVAILABLE: DuraSpace OR10 DSpace and Fedora User Group Session Videos

Ithaca, NY At the International Conference on Open Repositories (OR10) held earlier this year in Madrid DuraSpace sponsored a combined DSpace and Fedora User Group session for the first time.....More

The Difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

The phrase "Web 2.0" was coined in 2003 by Dale Dougherty, a vice-president at O'Reilly Media, and the phrase became popular in 2004. If the next fundamental change happened in roughly the same time span, we will be breaking into Web 3.0 sometime around 2015.
Web 1.0:
1. The web experts call it Read-Only
2. User’s role is limited only to reading the information presented to him.
3. The best examples are millions of static websites.

Web 2.0:

1. Active interaction of common user
2. Read-Write-Publish actively interact & contribute to the web using
3. Webs 2.0 are Bogs, Twitter, YouTube, eZineArticles, Flickr, Facebook and every social networking portal.