Scribe Software
Encyclopedia
Scribe Software is a system for the nondestructive scanning and digitization of books with the Internet Archive
's Scribe machine.
Its book-scanning system takes high-quality images of books and then does a set of manipulations, gets them in optical character recognition
and compressed, resulting in printable versions of the book that are also searchable.
The Java UI and PHP
image processing pipeline produce books for www.archive.org and other digital libraries.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...
's Scribe machine.
Its book-scanning system takes high-quality images of books and then does a set of manipulations, gets them in optical character recognition
Optical character recognition
Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping...
and compressed, resulting in printable versions of the book that are also searchable.
The Java UI and PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
image processing pipeline produce books for www.archive.org and other digital libraries.