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Subject: Fwd: Using OCR and GIS to create shapefiles
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 09:30:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paige G. Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
To: Air Photo Maps, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>
CC: STEPHEN WOODS <[log in to unmask]>, Deryck Holdsworth <[log in to unmask]>


I am forwarding the question below to this fantastic group on behalf of
my colleague, Stephen Woods. Please do reply to the list so others
benefit from your collective wisdom, and I'll be sharing feedback with
Stephen as it comes in.

Thanks everyone in advance!

Paige

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From: "STEPHEN WOODS" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Paige G Andrew" <[log in to unmask]>, "Deryck Holdsworth" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 6:59:43 PM
Subject: OCR and GIS

Deryck and Paige,

I was wondering if you knew someone who has successfully used Optical
Character Recognition (OCR) to create shapefiles to put into GIS?  Or if
you knew someone who I could talk to who would know?

Thanks, Stephen Woods