To scan in one-year's worth of a local daily newspaper into a searchable archive. 5 daily and 1 weekend issue per week. Daily issues average 12 pages, weekend issue averages 25 pages. Newspaper is set in 2-4 columns of text, a maximum of 1800 words per page. European (non-English) language. Need to scan in using OCR to make archive searchable, and also to scan in photos. Potential to expand the project to 100 years of issues. Page size is 11 inches by 17 inches.
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.
b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.
3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).
## Platform
OCR scanning technology.