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...decades that scholars have had access to the treasures and to a comprehensive catalog of the objects. The catalog, says Mikhail Treister, a curator at the Pushkin, is a "colossal work" that involved photographing each object, creating a complete description of it and assembling scientific articles and translating the text into seven languages. It will be available in English next month (Abrams...
...Yale was the first university to think in terms of doing optical scanning, or converting paper text into electronic text as fast and as efficiently as possible," Weed says. "The university purchased a $15,000 system to do the job, and I spent a lot of time during my first two years just figuring out what to do with it. By November 1990, I was able to benefit greatly from it, and scanned 20,000 to 40,000 pages of materials over my last two-and-a-half years at Yale...
...important figure in Weed's Harvard experience has been W. Kelley Gardner, the Director of Information Services at the Joslin Diabetes Center in the Medical Area, where a $60,000 computer system provides Weed with Digital hardware and the text-to-speech software called DECTalk...
...wanted to find a way to have a machine perform analysis and present biological data in a way that Matt can use," says Gardner, who does not work for Harvard. "DECTalk synthesizes speech from text and supports multiple voices...
Other programs clutter your hard drive through normal use. Netscape, for example, saves images and text from the web pages you have visited in a cache directory...