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The Role of OCR Converters in Digital Publishing

Hurix Digital

Let’s say you want to convert a physical book into a digital format. OCR is a software program that converts handwritten, typed or printed text and images into machine-encoded text. Digital text can be edited and displayed online and accessed by the readers based on metadata and keyword search. Pen computing.

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The Latest: Rapid Content Authoring Tool Market

eLearning 24-7

Some vendors push heavily on PPT, implying that a great WBT is really a PPT converted to Flash. The latter is slowly gaining speed, which is an advantage to LMS vendors who have a CAT in their own product – which is SCORM,PENS/IMS compliant. SaaS – while desktop still rules, SaaS is slowly gaining converts.

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Text-to-Speech Overview and NLP Quality - eLearning Technology , June 8, 2010 This post is a new kind of thing for me. Billy grabs a pen and paper and starts writing, “Hi. In the spirit of that presentation and #lrnchat, I wanted to share the biggest thing I learned at this conference. By by D’Arcy Norman on Flickr.

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