Application of OCR in Building Bibliographic Databases

  • A.R.D. Prasad
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.17.4.3228
Keywords: DRTC, Optical chraracter recognition (OCR), Bibliographic database, Digitisation, NISSAT

Abstract

Bibliographic databases tend to be very verbose and pose a problem to libraries due to the huge amount of data entry involved. In this situation, the two technologies that offer solutions are retro conversion and optical character recognition (OCR). The application of building an intelligent system for automatic identification of bibliographic elements like title, author, publisher, etc is discussed here. This paper also discusses the heuristics in identifying the elements and   resolving conflicts that arise 'in situations where more than one bibliographic element satisfy the criteria specified for identifying the various elements. This work is being carried out at the DRTC with the financial assistance of NISSAT.

http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dbit.17.4.3228

Published
2002-01-01
How to Cite
Prasad, A. (2002). Application of OCR in Building Bibliographic Databases. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information Technology, 17(4). https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.17.4.3228
Issue
Vol 17 No 4 (1997): Vol 17, No 4 (1997): Indian Bibliographic Databases-I
Section
Papers

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