United Nations Statistics Division - Demographic and Social Statistics

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Data Capture Technologies Overview
Parascript, LLC OCR and ICR Overview http://www.parascript.com/company2/tech_overview.cfm Lenox, Charles R. "Optical Character Recognition". June 2 2010. http://www.bookrags.com/research/optical-character-recognition-csci-02 Macmillan Science Library: Computer Sciences Optical Character Recognition
Case Studies of Data Capture Technologies
Australian Bureau of Statistics Census data capture experience 1991 to 2006 Guidelines on the Application of New Technology to Population Data Collection and Capture Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Technology (Case Studies: Australian Bureau of Statistics and BPS-Statistics Indonesia) Innovations and impacts on the Brazilian statistical and geographic information systems (Excerpts) Statistical Centre of Iran Mobile Digital Systems (PDAs) in Statistical Surveys Center of Automatic Reading of Documents (CLAD), Department of Statistics, High Commissioner Office for Planning, Morocco Using Optical Character Recognition in Census Of Population and Housing 2004 Of Morocco DRS Data Services Ltd ‘Cense’ device