Cataloguescan
Cataloguescan is a term used in information management to describe a workflow or software for extracting, reconciling, and indexing catalog content from printed, scanned, or digital catalogs to produce structured metadata and item records. It is applied by libraries, archives, publishers, and retailers seeking to make catalog content searchable and interoperable.
The process typically combines image capture, optical character recognition, layout analysis, and entity extraction. Scanned pages
Outputs commonly include MARC, MODS, Dublin Core, or schema.org JSON-LD, and can be exported in XML, JSON,
Applications include converting back-issues or catalog pages into digital catalogs, consolidating catalog data during migrations, feeding
Related concepts include metadata harvesting, OCR quality management, and authority control. Cataloguescan is not a standardized