COMMENTS ON A USER'S VIEW ON OCR'S DOCUMENT HANDLING CAPACITY.

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CIA-RDP67-00896R000100080109-5
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December 19, 2016
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Approved For Release 2006/10/17: CIA-RD P67-00896R000100080109-5 `6c paper recC',4men$3 the establish n of &?o.:intr9 tiles :In wpi, cn' O am ' yts with PoW:.E::a1 ey'1 iU.hrif3 ' ' 1 ' s " n i s approach e'iliv1de11Ge3 Wit!-' a n o the info,. t u o a . , sy# : ? ' ' L + 010 r r .'.r.ga f'. `;ode structure, cod"' e, and search W r '"uctican ^ ` ,tcra "i ountry files, i or( Ull the M n E pa.e a of PlE? _.toi # ,:Y z c". d @:iSi lk?4:ti~ t ? ::`.ecr East problemn, :.or it,'..13t.?nc..9, #rc t>c'.uOr .?l ?vil1 probably necd to aka " hrf s a amber of lengthy Moe and ::.:1 0 ,vreseuted with now ms ory problomn W r~A bLin ,:Ls CIA documents eb."?P. n be filed by CC UE: Unce : nc they are not sA Mrnolflml' t'.a.s to source. Filing of multi-copy to cover all arca s a Blocs ,ae;n n. f,;,:ices. as subjects would. appear imp: ?aeti.ca.1 from r n r e: ate cf search of a country file involves the .na l ing ca: 1i gh ;r y ce n m ce of extraneous material e `,phis paper Supports the maintenance of analyst's Bt ;c j.e e ??.v1 for such files appear Purely subjective - could not be "once ' ,., z ea 7 . er be no different in content or real ter than they are tad 4 o apt to be consulted. by "seekers" it, preference to li br r The writer comeletely underestimates the physical preblea.y of ,r.a..9c h.,n.cb country files of d. ci ments on ulcr(film ir., aperture card:;. Inconvenience of Intollofax expands the guitar Con nultants di.scuss3,,c:a of this o 0) ,ec 1-, with his judgment the the system c:.oes not help t. s l y~s.,t a;c nzA of s t +.tc data bearing on comp .ex cstimating ?ax bleenn : Consolidation must take plate in throe, Today?e doe! ment adds tuner l',unted. info: tion which con firms, expo dr, contradicts or itgnores report on the given developing situation. NO coder can retrieve and adJ;aes t his coding of yes een: days ? document in the light of today"s development ith- out becoming an analyst engaged in substantive activities. ?L'F~;n spa c:onu- tradictions, confusions and error nust appear inevitably in the search product and only .the analyst b not the coder ? will have the ccrgnetennce to recognize and dispose of these in his "weighting of opposing forces and Inferring of strategies". Approved For Release 2006/10/17: CIA-RDP67-00896R000100080109-5 Approved For Release 2006/10/17: CIA-RDP67-00896R000100080109-5 11. statement by Bar-E llel on this subject seems particularly peertinent: "...it should still be clear that in general no information retrieval systers, and be it as detailed and encyclgpedi a as can be, will be able to replace reading the original litera- ture, a procedure the value of which consists mostly in the stimulation it provides through its general line of argumenta- tion and method rather than its wealth of factuTal material". A Logician?s Reaction to Recent Theorizing on Inforration Search Systems, by Yehoshua ]Bar -Rillel, p. 105, American Documentation, 1.957- 2W1 Aga Approved For Release 2006/10/17: CIA-RDP67-00896R000100080109-5