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Yale Image Finder Retrieves Images by
Mining Text in Figures, Not Captions

[August 22, 2008]

By Vivien Marx

Researchers at Yale University have added a new tool to the biological literature-mining arsenal that allows users to retrieve images from published papers by searching the text within the figures — an approach that differs from other image-retrieval methods that rely on captions or other descriptions of the image.

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