Capturing Tables of Contents
Stuart L. Weibel · Journal of Library Administration · 2001
Both photocopied tables of contents and originals were scanned by optical character recognition (OCR). (The threshold for acceptable OCR conversion is a break-even point of 94% accuracy; it is cheaper to rekey data than fix corrupted data if rates fall below this point.) The results suggest that OCR recognition rates are likely to support improved capture productivity for as many as 75% of tables of contents. More than half (55%) of the sample can be processed effectively.