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David R. Karger and Lynn Andrea Stein.
Holt, Adam, 1971-
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2005-08-23T21:17:29Z
2005-08-23T21:17:29Z
2000
2000
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8562
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Thesis (M.Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-105).
I built a self-serve OCR station where anybody can scan in documents at high-speed - a public yet private ATM that accepts document deposits of a wider assortment than just checks. Depending on whether you scan a business card, an article or your entire filing cabinet, CPU-intensive recognition continues after you leave the station, and you are emailed options for secure web pickup. Users of MIT's Haystack personal repositories can even do "1-click" merging of offline literary artifacts into their online lives. The paperless pipe dream may never happen, but cheap digital optics and a mundane 40-year old technology (OCR) are converging to change the game. The mindless convenience of my $6000 kiosk suggests OCR will become a regulated munition* in the coming intellectual property and privacy wars. As OCR proliferates into cheap PDA's, neither publisher nor individual may ever again rely on humanity's oldest form of copy protection: paper. (*) The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998) bans technology that circumvents copyright locks.
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Scan your life : integrating OCR into your personal haystack!
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