Creating and Validating a Large Image Database for METTREC

摘要

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the process ofsetting up a new series of conferences named the Metadata Text Retrieval Conferences (METTREC). It will focus on evaluating document conversion using optical character recognition (OCR), and information retrieval (IR) technologies. To implement this conference, we require databases that can be used for conference evaluations and has chosen the Federal Register to be the initial document. This paper describes the activities associated with scanning the Federal Register to be initial document source. This paper describes the activities associated with scanning the Federal Register and validating the document images within the database. The process of image validation includes translating filenames, assuring image integrity, and verifying correct page sequences.