- Researchers from MSKCC reported results of the first clinical trial ever to show that a drug helped patients with advanced uveal melanoma at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting in Chicago.
- MSKCC’s Charles L. Sawyers, MD, was this year’s recipient of the ASCO Science of Oncology Award.
- Carol Aghajanian of MSKCC was quoted in a Bloomberg article about a simple screening program for cervical cancer using vinegar and visual exams.
- Jedd Wolchok of MSKCC is quoted in a Nature article about the possibility of combination approaches expanding the number of cancers that respond to immunotherapy.
- Sotheby’s auctioneer and raconteur Jamie Niven was the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Resource Highlights: Online OCR for Searchable Text
As a change of pace, here’s a Resource Highlight post of a non-health specific tool. The Online OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, is a resource on the web that converts your PDF documents into free-text documents which can then be saved to Word, .txt, or .rtf files.
Online OCR is useful for those conducting research and dealing with large number of PDF items. By applying OCR technology to your document, it becomes easier to search for sections or topics within the paper by looking for words that describe what you want. When PDF documents are scanned from physical books or journals they do not have the capability to search for words individually. OCR alleviates this problem and allows you to find what you want quickly and efficiently.
Note that certain documents, especially copies scanned from old texts, may not covert accurately which causes indecipherable characters to appear every now and again. OCR is not always 100% accurate, but it gets you closer to searching free-text than a static photocopy of a page. Also, Online OCR has a no fee version (converting 14 pages in one hour) and membership rates for converting a lot of pages or documents.
ILLiad Downtime – June 5
The Library’s ILLiad Document Delivery Service will be undergoing maintenance on June 5, 2013 from 8:00 a.m. to when it’s complete. During this time ILLiad may be unavailable, but service will be restored as soon as possible. Should you have any questions, please contact the Library.