[ILL-L] OCR

[Ledja Cullen]

If you already have your ILL articles in PDF you should not have to
re-scan the articles (I have Adobe Reader 9).  Just go to the "document"
tab in your Adobe PDF file and then select "OCR Text Recognition" and
"Recognize Text Using OCR". 
 
Ledja Cullen
Reference & Evening Services Librarian
Interlibrary Loans & Course Reserves
Golden Gate University - Law Library
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: (415) 442-6689
Fax: (415) 512-9395
Email: lcullen at ggu.edu 
http://www.ggu.edu/lawlibrary 


>>> Jody Schaecher <Jody.Schaecher at bakeru.edu> 9/3/2009 11:00 AM >>>

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
BakerUniversity
Collins Library
P.O. Box65
518 8th St.
Baldwin City, KS   66006-0065
(785) 594-4585
(785) 594-6721
 
jschaecher at bakeru.edu


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
ill at webster.edu
 
 
 
 

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[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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