Extracting specimen label data rapidly with a smartphone—a great help for simple digitization in taxonomy and collection management

This article provides a tutorial on using smartphones to aid in the process of capturing label information from specimens. Use the phone to take images of the labels and use the OCR software included in mobile services such as Google Translate or Google Lens, and only pass the processed scan text to the computer.

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URL https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/140726/
Task Clusters
  • Digital Data Capture
  • Digital Imaging
Preparations General
Discipline General
Audience Collections Professionals
Language English
Category Journal Article
DOI https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1233.140726
First Author Dirk Ahrens
Other Authors
  1. Alexander Haas
  2. Thaynara L. Pacheco
  3. Peter Grobe
Publisher ZooKeys
Volume Number 1233
Pagination 15-30
Date Published 2025-03-26
Accessible for Free Yes

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