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Date: 20 Dec 2006
From:kmarsh at novodynamics.com
Subject:NovoDynamics Arabic OCR at Yale Project

NovoDynamics is honored that Yale Library has selected VERUS for its  
two prominent digitization projects and is excited about its new  
research partnership with the prestigious institution (see the press  
release below). Please visit our new website www.novodynamics.com to  
learn how VERUS can address your Middle Eastern optical character  
recognition needs.

Sincerely,

Kristin Marsh
NovoDynamics Sales
(734) 205-9112
kmarsh at novodynamics.com

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Yale Library and NovoDynamics® Sign Research Agreement

Dec 1, 2006
New Haven, CT

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, December 1, 2006 -  The Yale University  
Library announced that its team for two granted projects -- Project  
AMEEL (Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library) and Iraq  
ReCollection -- has signed a research agreement with NovoDynamics of  
Ann Arbor, Michigan, regarding the use of its product VERUS, an  
advanced Arabic optical character recognition (OCR) software solution.

The mission of Project AMEEL is to create a scholarly Web-based  
portal for the study of the Middle East, including its history,  
culture, development, and contemporary face; and within this portal,  
to integrate new or existing scholarly digital content. Iraq  
ReCollection project will digitize a group of key humanistic Iraqi  
journals held by Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. These  
journals will form part of the AMEEL electronic archive that permits  
1) retrieval and display via the Internet, and 2) integration into  
other existing electronic systems, such as the search engine of OACIS  
(http://www.library.yale.edu/oacis). Both projects propose to develop  
an approach and "best practices" for scanning Arabic language-based  
humanistic content.

The selected content will be digitized via scanning. The scanned  
images will be converted, using NovoDynamics' VERUS Arabic OCR  
software, into a form that permits search, retrieval, and display.  
Thanks to NovoDynamics' innovative technology for extracting Arabic  
information from complex and degraded documents, the Yale team can  
retrieve information that has never been accessible in the past.  
While collaborating with NovoDynamics to enhance its VERUS software  
for library use, the Yale team will also be working in partnership  
with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt on  
complementary digitization initiatives.

About Project AMEEL

This project is funded under the U.S. Department of Education's Title  
VI TICFIA Program, which fosters the development of innovative  
techniques or programs that address national teaching and research  
needs in international education and foreign languages by using  
technologies to access, collect, organize, preserve, and widely  
disseminate information on world regions and countries other than the  
United States.
http://www.ed.gov/programs/iegpsticfia/index.html

About Iraq ReCollection

In response to the damage sustained by museums, libraries, and other  
cultural institutions in Iraq, the National Endowment for the  
Humanities funded an initiative called "Recovering Iraq's Past," to  
preserve and document resources which, because of their intellectual  
content and cultural value, are deemed vital for research and education.
http://www.neh.gov/news/archive/20051221.html

About NovoDynamics

NovoDynamics' solutions remove the digitization barriers typically  
created by challenging languages and degraded documents and fill a  
growing need within the academic, private and public sectors for  
advanced data acquisition and retrieval technologies. For more  
information, please visit http://www.novodynamics.com.

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