The UNC study is among the first to apply LLMs to this task and to show they can outperform existing methods in accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. This new approach opens the door to digitizing ...

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators estimate are held in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Like many of you, I have a hard time getting rid of stuff. I’ve got boxes and boxes of weirdo bits and bobs, and piles of devices that I’ll eventually get around to stripping down into even more bits ...

Business has embraced digital technologies for years, but one area that's lagged behind the rest is the supply chain. The trucking industry, for example, still depends on manual processes and ...

It’s all there on vinyl, tape, film, and paper–your memories, your creations, your collections–all your media memorabilia. But in analog form, the content is difficult and time-consuming to organize ...

This article was originally featured on Popular Photography. The PhotoScan app from Google is one of the quickest and easiest ways we’ve found to create high-quality digital versions of physical ...

A sheet of bank note proofs heads down the conveyor belt to be photographed. Brendan McCabe The conveyor belt delivers a bank note proof sheet to a custom-designed 80 megapixel imaging system. Brendan ...

This new approach opens the door to digitizing natural history collections at a speed never before possible. More information: Using large language models to address the bottleneck of georeferencing ...