

This is part of an ongoing R&D program in document imaging that has spanned many aspects of electronic document conversion and preservation, Internet document transmission and document usage. To investigate solutions to some of these barriers, the Communications Engineering Branch of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, an R&D division of NLM, has developed a web site called the DocMorph Server.

In addition, disadvantaged groups of people such as the blind and visually impaired often have difficulties in reading either printed or electronic information. For example, the formats of files received through the Internet may not be usable on the recipient's computer. While libraries and their patrons are beginning to reap the benefits of this new technology, both technological and social barriers still exist that lead to difficulties in the use of library document information. Ariel, a product of the Research Libraries Group, converts paper-based documents to monochrome bitmapped images, and delivers them over the Internet, while the National Library of Medicine's DocView enables library patrons to receive, display and manage documents received from Ariel systems.
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New technology and software such as Ariel and DocView have made it possible for libraries to distribute information to patrons over the Internet. Second, the DocMorph Server provides the design team an active test bed for evaluating the effectiveness and utility of new document image processing algorithms and functions, so that they may be evaluated for possible inclusion in other image processing software products being developed at NLM or elsewh. First, in a role that will benefit both libraries and their patrons, it allows Internet users to upload scanned image files for conversion to alternative formats, thereby enabling wider delivery and easier usage of library document information. The DocMorph Server web site is designed to fill two roles. This is part of an ongoing intramural R&D program in document imaging that has spanned many aspects of electronic document conversion and preservation, Internet document transmission and document usage.
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To research how to overcome such barriers, the Communications Engineering Branch of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, an R&D division of NLM, has developed a web site called the DocMorph Server. While libraries and their patrons are beginning to reap the benefits of this new technology, barriers exist, e.g., differences in image file format, that lead to difficulties in the use of library document information. The National Library of Medicine's DocView is primarily designed for library patrons to receive, display and manage documents received from Ariel systems. Ariel, a product of the Research Libraries Group, converts paper-based documents to monochrome bitmapped images, and delivers them over the Internet. This has been made possible through the widespread adoption of software such as Ariel and DocView. Increasing numbers of research libraries are turning to the Internet for electronic interlibrary loan and for document delivery to patrons.
