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The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) is one of Europe's leading and oldest newspaper publishing houses. Its archive contains all of the articles it has ever published, from the first edition (in 1780) until the present day. The archive extends further back in history than almost any other press archive in the world... Up until now, however, accessing the archive, has been cumbersome. For the period from 1780 to 1871, there is not even an index to help search for articles on particular topics. The archivists have to leaf through every issue one by one, or manually place the microfilms, which have been made of every volume, into the microfilm reader, and then look through them... Two million pages of newsprint documented on 1,500 microfilms will be digitized, and prepared for automatic access. Microfilmed pages whose quality does not suffice for digitization will be re-photographed. The digitization quality will be high enough for both the screen image of the Internet page and for..

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