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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP67-00896R000100080109-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 109
• Content Type: REPORT

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`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".
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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-
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