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Electronic book conversion and manufacturing using embedded tagging tools

Ray, William
 
 William  Ray
 Ph.D.
 President
 East Lansing
Group InfoTech, Inc.
 Michigan 
 USA 
Group InfoTech, Inc.,  4700 S Hagadorn Rd
East Lansing  Michigan  48823 USA
Phone: +1 517 336 7110 Fax: +1 517 336 8973 email: wjr@groupinfo.com
 Biography
 William Ray, Ph.D. - Bill is president and founder of Group InfoTech, Inc. of East Lansing, Michigan. Group InfoTech consists of three divisions: Electrographics Division, an all electronic prepress facility; Datacom Division, a high reliability optical character/document recognition facility, and InfoTech Division, a research and development group which performs industrial research in graphic arts for internal use, under outside contract and for commercial sale. He began his research career in cybernetics at the University of Missouri and later, in Detroit, with the Ford Foundation. Subsequently, he left full time academia to start a software house which built products for large scale, complex information systems interfaced with real time data acquisition systems. He is currently still an Adjunct Professor at Michigan State University.
 Bill holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics, a Masters in Statistics and a BA in Physics and Chemistry. He is a member of TAGA, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and ACM. He is also the former chairman of the GCA Workflow Committee. He has been on the TAGA Board of Directors since 1995.
 Large scale OCR conversion of out-of-print books has become both economically viable and desirable with the advent of internet distribution and the general availability of both print-on-demand (POD) systems and the E-book. This paper describes a new manufacturing and embedded tagging process associated with the conversion of data from physical pages to tagged electronic files. The paper, specifically, describes a set of new tagging tools that allow the user to provide for significantly reduced cost for tag creation.
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