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Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering)  2005, Vol. 6 Issue (11): 22-    DOI: 10.1631/jzus.2005.A1327
    
The Million Book Project at Bibliotheca Alexandrina
ELDAKAR Youssef, EL-GAZZAR Khalid, ADLY Noha, NAGI Magdy
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, El Shatby 21526, Alexandria, Egypt; Computer and Systems Engineering Department, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
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Abstract  The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA) has been developing and putting to use a workflow for turning printed books into digital books as its contribution to the building of a Universal Digital Library. This workflow is a process consisting of multiple phases, namely, scanning, image processing, OCR, digital archiving, document encoding, and publishing. Over the past couple of years, the BA has defined procedures and special techniques for the scanning, processing, OCR and publishing, especially of Arabic books. This workflow has been automated, allowing the governance of the different phases and making possible the production of 18000 books so far. The BA has also designed and implemented a framework for the encoding of digital books that allows publishing as well as a software system for managing the creation, maintenance, and publishing of the overall digital repository.

Key words： Million Book Project (MBP)      Digital books workflow      Digitization      Universal Digital Library      Scanning      Multilingual OCR      Digital publishing      Image-on-text     
Received: 05 August 2005     
CLC:  TP391  
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ELDAKAR Youssef, EL-GAZZAR Khalid, ADLY Noha, NAGI Magdy. The Million Book Project at Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A (Applied Physics & Engineering), 2005, 6(11): 22-.

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