I had the wrong idea about Trollope for years, based on a cursory scan of his work in my 20s.
One machine uses optical scanning to work out what sort of plastic the bottles are made of.
But like an MRI scan, this kind of work takes time.
With digital scanning, texts of works that may be decades old can be mined for those few morsels of insight that may enhance a research paper or help prove an argument.
But outside that limit (and yearly, as a new publication year is added to the archive), works would be added on an opt-out basis — the same basis that caused so much anger when Google did it, scanning thousands of works whose copyright information they had not ascertained.
The citation index Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) was systematically scanned for works with brief presentations of visual stimuli.
McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster and John Wiley & Sons filed a joint lawsuit in the Federal District Court in Manhattan, seeking a declaration that the Google Print for Libraries program violates copyright and requesting an injunction against the scanning of printed works without the permission of the copyright holder.
So relentlessly do the eyes of smartly suited manager types and long-aproned waiters scan the room in search of work that within 1.5 seconds of my friend starting to make a note on the back of his hand, someone had gently pushed a notepad between his fingers.
He had never lived alone, owned a car, scanned the classifieds in search of work.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nearly a year after he was laid off from his job as a window installer, Raymond Vaughn is still out of work, still scanning job listings on the computer and still sending résumés into a seemingly indifferent void.
Homestead is impatient not only with those who dismiss the possibility of Cather's lesbianism but also with those who scan her work for evidence of her closetedness.
