Athletic Archive OCR Quality Checklist for Searchable School Collections
Athletic archive OCR quality checklist — a six-phase, repeatable quality-assurance process — is the practical tool that separates a digital archive that can actually be searched from one that is merely stored. Optical character recognition (OCR) converts scanned images of text into machine-readable characters, making a 1984 football program, a 1997 record book, or a newspaper clipping from a championship season discoverable by anyone who types a name, a year, or a sport into a search box. When OCR quality is low, athletes go unfound, records cannot be surfaced for hall-of-fame nominations, and decades of history stay buried in files that no one can locate.
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