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TIME

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	Company profile

	TIME magazine is one of the world's most widely read publications. TIME.com now provides a vast online record of history in the making from 1923 to today.

Business need

Digitize the entire 80-year print run of TIME magazine
Automate the process as much as possible, going far beyond what had previously been achieved in the field

Solution overview

Building on previous work done for the MIT Press, researchers at HP Labs came up with a three-stage solution:

Pass each digitally scanned magazine page through multiple Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines and selected the best output from each using a series of algorithms
Reconstruct the articles from their constituent parts by creating a software engine that could recognize and exclude sections of each page that were not article text – with the software then making intelligent guesses to determine the correct sequencing for text blocks
Employ an HP-designed tool that enabled HP Services consultants to manually link zones together to recreate the reading flow of the articles where the software had guessed wrong

Results

Visitors to TIME.com can now search the entire output of the magazine from 1923 to the present day, as well as search for covers and browse stories grouped by theme.


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