The Paper Renaissance

In the second of my talks at the GOVIS 2007 conference, I spoke about Exbiblio - a project to bring paper documents to life by giving them digital capabilities.

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I’m intrigued by how much has changed since I gave that talk.  The combination of better sheet-fed scanners, improved OCR, and widely-deployed search technology has revolutionised the way I deal with paper.  Here’s a more recent video showing what I do with paper now.

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