Genealogical Records, Resources & Activities

  for Dallas, Dallas County and North Texas

Presentation Date: 01 March 2012

Presentor: Kathleen Murray

Length of Presentation: 45 minutes

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Adobe Acrobat Tutorials

• Recognizing Text in Scanned PDF Documents: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-acrobat-x/recognizing-text-in-scanned-pdf-documents
• How to Edit a Scanned PDF: http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-edit-scanned-pdf

References

• lijn, E. (2008). The current state-of-art in newspaper digitization. D-Lib Magazine, 14(1/2). Retrieved 11 February 2012 at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january08/klijn/01klijn.html 
• Powell, T. & Paynter, G. (2009). Going grey? Comparing the OCR accuracy levels of bitonal and greyscale images. D-Lib Magazine, 15(3/4). Retrieved 11 February 2012 from http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march09/powell/03powell.html
• Zhou, Y. (2010). Are your digital documents Web friendly:: Making scanned documents Web accessible. Information Technology and Libraries,  29(3). Retrieved 11 February 2012 from http://www.ala.org/lita/ital/sites/ala.org.lita.ital/files/content/29/3/zhou.pdf