Lisa,

There are a number of vendors who make microfilm to image scanners with OCR
software to convert the image to machine readable text for indexing or full
text search.  Sunrise is one of them.  Try a google seach on microfile
scanner.

George D. Darnell, CRM
SAIC

>From: Lisa Cain <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Indexing Microfilm Images
>Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:48:44 -0600
>
>Hello to all.
>
>I recently learned that our county library has in its archives editions
>of newspapers that were published in our town decades ago, as far back
>as 1893.  The newspapers are on microfilm.  Hard copies of the
>newspapers are gone; the publishers went out of business long ago.
>
>I'd like to index these old newspapers and have them in a searchable
>format available to the public, but I'm not sure how to go about doing
>this.  I suppose I could print each image, then scan the print and use
>OCR software to capture the text, then index the text.  It seems like
>there is a better way, though.  Any ideas?
>
>Thank you!
>
>Lisa H. Cain, CMC
>Town Clerk
>Town of New Castle, Colorado
>(970) 984-2311 (voice)
>(970) 984-2716 (fax)
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>www.newcastlecolorado.org
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