IMPACT Frequently Asked Questions

 Project FAQs

• Who are the partners in IMPACT?
• What other projects/initiatives are you working with?
• I have a problem or query – How do I ask IMPACT for advice?
• Is IMPACT affiliated with Google?
• How will IMPACT improve OCR Recognition  of historic texts?
• What is going to happen to IMPACT at the end of the project?
• What is the IMPACT Centre of Competence?
• How do I join the Centre of Competence?
• Can I reuse IMPACT material in my own project and presentations?
• I live/work outside the EU:  can I still benefit from the project outputs?
• Do you provide consultation services?
• How do I join the mailing list?

Strategic and Technical FAQs

Digitisation

• What standards should I use for Image Capture?
• Should I digitise in colour, greyscale or bitonal?
• What file-types should I use at what point of workflow?
• When is it preferable to scan from microfilm?
• Is it better to digitise in-house or to outsource?

Optical Character Recognition

• What is OCR?
• We are planning a digitisation project: does OCR make sense?
• At what stage of the process should I carry out OCR?
• How do I measure OCR success?
• Will OCR quality be dependent on the image file-type and the amount of compression used?
• How do I measure OCR accuracy?
• What's the difference between character and word accuracy?
• When is it better to transcribe rather than to OCR?
• How do I process material which has more than one language?

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