Evaluation of Text Legibility in Alternative Imaging Approaches to Microfiche Digitization
Peer reviewed, Journal article
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https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2822970Utgivelsesdato
2021Metadata
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10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2021.1.0.22Sammendrag
Microfiche was a common format used in microforms reproductions of documents, extensively used for archival storage before the move to digital formats. While contemporary documents are still available for digitization, others from older historical periods are no longer physically accessible for various reasons. In some cases, their microfiche copies are available, making microfiche digitization a must. However, a microfiche reader is not always available and, even then, it is a machine made for the purpose of reading and not for data collection. In this work, the performance two imaging devices are evaluated as alternatives to the traditional microfiche reader, by means of optical character recognition (OCR). Results show that this alternative surpasses the performance of a microfiche reader in terms of text legibility.