Digital Archiving - Protection Of Documents Comes Out Of The Dark Ages (Maybe)

Saturday, July 4, 2009 - 14:56 in Mathematics & Economics

Paperless office?  An optimistic pipe dream.    We use more paper documents than at any time in history despite the prevalence of the Internet and digital technology.    Part of the reason is lousy copy protection of scanned documents and storing them online. But a new approach to archiving scanned documents that makes the text searchable and adds a watermark to images for copy protection and validation reported in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems may herald some forward progress. read more

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