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Significant European historical texts will be accessible and searchable online more rapidly (Photo: Flickr.com)

EU book digitisation project needs 'Wikipedia'-style army of volunteer editors

An EU partnership with Israeli researchers from US computing firm IBM to digitise major European historical texts is seeking volunteers to help boost the accuracy of scanned texts in a process that will reduce from hours to just minutes the amount of time it currently takes to digitise documents.

The goal of the digitisation project, dubbed Impact (ImProving ACcess to Text), is to increase the accuracy of scanned texts and also editable and searchable online.

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Significant European historical texts will be accessible and searchable online more rapidly (Photo: Flickr.com)

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