[ILL-L] OCR

[Jody Schaecher]

We have had students that are reading impaired and they had reader software to read the articles to them.  Another reason to request an article with OCR is so one could copy and paste data for quotes.  The full version of Adobe acrobat has OCR capabilities built into it.  You could re-scan ILL articles with OCR.  The problem being you would need to "clean up" the document in Microsoft Word as the OCR can mis-scan characters.

Jody Schaecher
Interlibrary Loan - Borrowing
Baker University
Collins Library
P.O. Box 65
518 8th St.
Baldwin City, KS   66006-0065
(785) 594-4585
(785) 594-6721

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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Sara Fitzpatrick
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:51 AM
To: 'Interlibrary Loan Listserv'
Subject: RE: [ILL-L] OCR

Why would a patron need OCR for an ILL article? As far as I know, we've never had that request.

Sara Fitzpatrick
Interlibrary Loan
Webster University Library
Eden-Webster Library System (ELW)
Phone 314-246-7807
Fax 314-968-7113
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From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Connie Neuman (MDH)
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:13 AM
To: ill-l at webjunction.org
Subject: [ILL-L] OCR

How are your libraries handling requests from patrons who need OCR (optical character recognition) for their articles? Are you offering it at all? Do you offer it only if the patron requests it? Have you never heard about it?

Connie J Neuman

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