U.S. to Digitize All Tangible Gov't. Publications

CETS writes "The U.S. Government Printing Office is working with the library community on a national digitization plan, with the goal of digitizing a complete legacy collection of tangible U.S. Government publications. The objective is to ensure that the digital collection is available, in the public domain, for no-fee permanent public access through the FDLP. See specific article for more detail."

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Electronic Dog Poo...

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...smelly and useless.

Well, it is possible that this idea would actually result in a digital collection of documents that were usable, but if it goes the way I've noted too many other digitisation efforts seem to go, then the result will be a stack of PDF documents that are no more than scanned images of pages with no OCR, thus no actual use.

Of course it is possible that some bright spark will come along and run an OCR process over the standard scans that many document scanning systems seem to produce.

From a PHB perspective, a PDF is universal, never mind the difference between an image and text which might actually make the collection useful.

stupid bush

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it's all his fault!!!111 this a good example of the failure this administration has been