As the industry standard for handling computer text, Unicode's aim is to guarantee that symbols display properly across devices worldwide.
Newspapers opened tip lines, computer text analyses were run, and Henning Mankell and other well-known writers were forced to publicly deny authorship.
The company developed its own optical character recognition software to turn the type in headlines and product descriptions into searchable computer text, a Google spokesman said.
The latter have proved popular among mobile workers, who must focus on something other than a computer, such as medical personnel, government inspectors and salespeople.Their scribbles can be converted into computer text or kept as they are.
What Web readers do not know, however, is that they have also been enlisted in a project to transform an old book, magazine, newspaper or pamphlet into an accurate, searchable and easily sortable computer text file.
By not trying to recognize cursive writing instantly, the company hopes that it will change the user experience, which has previously been constantly interrupted by the appearance of recognized words as computer text on the screen.
Remember that when we feed a computer text, we are starting from scratch.
As a graduate student at Penn State, he wrote his 1967 Master's Thesis on computer interfaces based on graphics and not on arcane strings of computer text commands.
Many of the world's voice portals already use the company's "RealSpeak" product, which converts computer text to almost-human sounding speech.
When it's finally published on paper in early 2010 it is likely going to be one of the most beautiful computer text books ever.
