[Genealib] Newspaper indexing

[Joyce Cook]

Craig Scott is definitely looking at the future of indexing.  But he did 
miss one thing. Right now in my county a local person is scanning area 
newspapers, as far back as possible, then using an OCR program to make 
them all-word searchable, thus no index needed.  This is not a perfect 
system because the OCR picks up blots, splotches, and other weird things 
on the page, so there are odd-looking words and spellings.  However, it 
is online and is quite useful in local history/genealogy research.  I'm 
going to be indexing a genealogical society's journal this year and I'm 
wondering if we shouldn't just scan pages, convert to OCR, and put it on 
a CD-ROM for our members.  No index!

Joyce Cook, genealogist and retired librarian
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