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Digitization Workflow in the Czech Digital Mathematics Library

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Experience in setting up a workflow from scanned images of mathematical writings into a fully fledged mathematical library is described on the example of the project Czech Digital Mathematics Library DML-CZ. An overview of the whole process is given, with detailed description of production steps involving scanned image processing and optical character recognition. Experience gained, lessons learned, and tools prepared during development of DML-CZ are described. DML-CZ now serves more than 30,000 articles (more than 300,000 digitised pages) to the public.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

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  1. Academy of Mathematics & System Science, Beijing, China

    Ruyong Feng

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer S, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

    Wen-shin Lee

  3. Department of Mathematical Information S, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Yosuke Sato

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Sojka, P. (2014). Digitization Workflow in the Czech Digital Mathematics Library. In: Feng, R., Lee, Ws., Sato, Y. (eds) Computer Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43799-5_13

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