[thelist] loopy URLs produced by search engines

[timothy booker]

Tony Crockford wrote:

> http://www.uk.olivesoftware.com/
> where you can search through facsimile copies (scanned images) of
> newspapers and have your search word highlighted on the image (spooky,
> darlings...)
> Who'd like to guess how that works then?

Probably each article is indexed by some OCR software.  Then, when you
view an article, the particular paragraph containing the search word is
OCRed again and highlighted dynamically.

Clever.

Tim


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