Electronic Text Creation & Analysis
Text Conversion
The staff at the Scholars' Lab can help users with text conversion needs:
Physical typescript to any text format (.doc, .rtf, .html, .xml, .txt, etc.)
In the lab, we maintain seven scanners with companions software, including flat-bed, sheet-feed, duplex, and large-format models. Using one of these scanners and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software, a user can take a physical document and translate it into a word-processible text format.
Physical document to .pdf (portable document format)
Using any of the scanners mentioned above, the Scholars' Lab also maintains current versions of Adobe Acrobat for creating document facsimiles for instructional and personal needs.
Note:
The Scholars' Lab is not a substitute for Toolkit, the University's on-line course management system. All requests for articles and documents destined for a Toolkit page should be dropped off in the Toolkit box in Alderman Library.
eXtensible Markup (XML) Training
Our staff has a wealth of experience in using markup applications to structure text for purposes of large-scale collection aggregation and discovery.
We are well-trained in using the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) XML application for describing the structure and content of humanities and social scientific content. If learning XML might suit your task or project, please contact the Scholars' Lab for guidance.
Can't find what you're looking for at the Scholars' Lab? Try these other labs and groups around Grounds: