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The digitisation of printed materials such as books and journals is still a complicated and expensive process that requires a patchwork of software programs for the single conversation steps. Many libraries therefore shrink from venturing digitisation activities. To improve and simplify digitisation by highly automating the conversion process is the prominent aim of METAe — a project co-funded by the European Commission within the 5th Framework, IST-Programme. The consortium of the METAe-project is made up of a number of leading libraries, university departments and digitisation companies from all over Europe, including the University of Innsbruck (Austria), i323 (Austria), CCS Compact Computer Systeme (Germany), Abbyy Europe/MitCom (Germany), the University of Florence (Italy), and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (Italy).
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Mühlberger, G., Stehno, B. (2002). The Meta Project — Automated Digitisation of Books and Journals. In: Agosti, M., Thanos, C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45747-X_53
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