Information about searchable ancient books and documents

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OCR is short for Optical Character Recognition. Optical Character Recognition is about scanning software that recognizes patterns.

The term ‘incunable’ was coined around 1640 by the Westphagal scholar Bernhard von Mallinckrodt.

Gothic script is a collective term for all books used from 1200 to app. 1500.