A software tool capable of performing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) upon a set of images. It achieves the task by analysing pixel sets and in an image and cross-matching them to a dictionary of words. Omnipage automates large sections of the digitisation process enabling physical objects to be scanned, processed using the OCR software and exported to a document file format. Later versions of the software incorporate image enhancement features to improve scan quality (and recognition results) and better support for complex page layouts and forms.
Features:
• Integration with scanning software
• Maintain layout of captured document
A&H use case 1 description:
The Cahiers pour l’analyse project is using Omnipage to OCR text from the French philosophy journal, Cahiers pour l’analyse.
PageMaker was the first desktop publishing (DTP) program, introduced in 1985. The last version is PageMaker 7.0 released in July 2001. In 2004, Adobe announced that development for Adobe PageMaker had ceased but that Adobe would continue to sell and support it. InDesign is presented as the successor product.
Features:
• Automatically rearrange a document’s pages into printer spreads for professional printing
• Automatically create and style bulleted and numbered lists
• Create customised publications (e.g. catalogues, business cards)
• Resize and move images and their frames or reposition content in relation to frames using the “Position tool”
A&H use case 1 description:
The corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture utilise Pagemaker during the production of project documentation.
Creator:
Aldus Corporation (in early versions), Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe Illustrator is a comprehensive vector graphics environment that is ideal for all creative professionals, including web and interactive designers and developers, multimedia producers, motion graphics and visual effects designers, animators, and video professionals. The latest version, Illustrator CS4, is the fourteenth generation in the product line.
Features:
• Tightly integrated with other Adobe suite software
• Raster and type-in vector format support
A&H use case 1 description:
The Inscriptions of Aphrodisias project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate resources associated with Greek inscriptions from Aphrodisias in Caria.
A&H use case 2 description:
The North Sea Palaeolandscapes project used Adobe Illustrator during the production of visual data for use by the geological and archaeological community.
A&H use case 3 description:
The British Town maps project used Adobe Illustrator to manipulate graphical data produced between 1470 and 1895.
