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  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with LIA

    OCR is the process of converting either printed documents or images with words into digital text that can be used for analysis. This is helpful for transforming PDFs that contain images with words into something that can be indexed and made searchable within LIA. Alternatively, OCR is also known as text recognition. This functionality can…

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  • Boolean Search with LIA

    The Local Internet Archive or LIA now supports Boolean search. Boolean search can help you narrow or widen your search criteria depending on your needs. LIA supports the following Boolean search options: NOT AND OR These provide the ability to focus a search, particularly when your topic contains multiple search terms. For example, let imagine…

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