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 transfering an archive onto a database
Author:Jonathan
Date:Wednesday, 3rd Apr 2002 14:55
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Hi.
I work for a media office in Glasgow and I am wondering if anyone out there knows the best way to transfer an archive of newspaper clippings onto a database system applicable to the computer. Has anyone used or know anything good and bad about Portfolio 5 software?
Basically we want to be able to have a reliable, efficient and easy to use database on the computer to call up various newspaper cuttings. Is scanning them in as images or incorporating OCR the best way to go about it?

If anyone can help, cheers.

Jonathan

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  transfering an archive onto a database
Hi. I work for a media office in Glasgow and I am wondering if anyone out there knows the best way ...
Jonathan 03/04/02 14:55 16922
   Re: transfering an archive onto a database
Hi Jonathan - there may be others out here with more direct experience of converting a database of clippings, ...
Stuart Cliffe 03/04/02 17:30 16929
    Re: transfering an archive onto a database
Hi there If I understand your question right, you wish to get newspaper clippings into a searchable electronic format? In a previous ...
Paul Holliday 05/04/02 09:29 16965
     Re: transfering an archive onto a database
If you store images in your database then as Stuart point out your database will get very large quickly. The ...
Penny Bailey 05/04/02 14:59 16973
      Re: transfering an archive onto a database
Hi, I work for a company which has built a scanning and clipping system for newspaper clippings and a database to ...
Darryl Sparey 09/04/02 08:33 17024

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