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Dear Collective Wisdom:
The following query came to me from a personal
friend who works for a small historical society library. (I know, it's not
art-related, but I also know that some of you are very knowledgeable about
scanning and searching.) She could, of course, convert her scanned files
to Word documents, which she could then search in the usual way. But is
there an easier solution? If the answer is very technically involved,
perhaps someone could refer me to a source that I could pass on to her would
explain it relatively simply. Naturally, she wants to avoid actually
cataloging individual documents. Many thanks in advance. See
below--
Is it possible to search the entire text after a newspaper article has been
scanned into a computer? And if so, what software and/or procedure is used?
The situation is this: we have vertical files of material of
local
interest, loosely arranged by main subject. Newspaper
articles,
brochures, other ephemera, much of it in poor condition. I'd like
to
scan it all to preserve the information and also to make it easier
to
search, but I don't know what's possible on a limited budget.
The alternative would be to accession each piece and add
subject
tracings in our computerized catalogue (we use PastPerfect).
That
would direct the searcher to the scan of the item...but adding
the
tracings would be a BIG LONG project that I'd like to avoid
if
possible.
Joan