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With optical character recognition (OCR), you can scan the contents of a document into a single file of editable text. This article, which focuses on scanning books, describes the steps you need to take to prepare pages for optimal OCR results, and compares various free OCR tools to determine which is the best at extracting the text.

The METAe Engine - marketed by CCS GmbH. under the brand name docWorks/METAe Edition is a innovative, effective and user-friendly software which understands the structure and layout of documents and translates it into reach XML files. METAe dramatically eases the digitisation process of printed material especially from the 19th and 20th century.

TopQuadrant's TopBraid™ products support RDFa, both as an input format (via third party RDFa readers), and as an output format, using an RDFa editor. Input supports HTML via jtidy. We are currently upgrading our RDFa editor to have better wysiwyg capabilities.

Amaya is a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.

Cognition is a parser for both “upper case Semantic Web” (RDF, RDFa) and “lower case semantic web” (microformats) technologies. It includes modules for exporting parsed data in a variety of formats, including RDF, vCard, iCalendar, Atom and KML.

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).