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Very simple.
A entry level book to a designer, document and GUI.

Good background for layout and use of text
This is a 'classic' and very useful when it comes to screen and page layout.I have used this book as a reference for classes in interface design for many years.My copy went missing so I bought another one. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer Graphics    3. Computer Graphics - General    4. Computers - General Information    5. Data processing    6. Electronic publishing    7. Layout (Printing)    8. Programming - Software Development    9. User interfaces (Computer syst    10. User interfaces (Computer systems)   

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Of all the tasks programmers are asked to perform, storing, compressing, and retrieving information are some of the most challenging--and critical to many applications. Read more

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A Comprehensive Introduction To Text Retrieval Systems
A wonderful feature of this book spans out practicality for various topics including compresion algorithms and theory, document and imaging system and information retrieval. On my personal interest, the authors highlight a vast list of not only the theory but present it in a simple common sense logic.
Great Book on Information Retrieval
Managing Gigabytes is the best book out there on information retrieval.If you're interested in implementing your own IR system, there's nothing available that comes close to this book.But the book is good not just because it's the only one out there: the writing is excellent, the algorithms are presented clearly and explained well, and the coverage is thorough.Additionally, the coverage of compression algorithms is the best I've found in any book.All algorithms and pseudo-code in the book are presented clearly enough such that any competent programmer should be able to implement them.If all else fails, however, the free downloadable source code for the mg system can fill in any gaps. The Wonderful Thing Is: It's the Only One
This is the only book there is that will actually teach you how to build an information retrieval system (aka search engine).It discusses all the algorithms and tradeoffs, and comes with free downloadable source code to experiment with.Some of the material is standard, but covered in more implementation detail here than anywhere else.Some of the material is novel: you won't find better coverage of compression unless you hand-assemble twenty research papers, and reverse-engineer them to figure out how they're implemented.But with "Managing Gigabytes", it's all here. (Although, after a particularly envigorating discussion of how to string together a bunch of techniques to compress their corpus and save a couple 100MB, I did a check and found you could buy 512MB of RAM for less than the cost of the book.Knowledge is Power, but sometimes a little cash is more powerful.)The only negative is that this book is not called "Managing Terabytes", as the first edition promised/threatened it might be.RAM and disk are cheap, but not that cheap, and for now terabytes (and sometimes petabytes) are managed only by NASA, Google, and a few others.I can't wait to see the third edition! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Data compression (Telecommunication)    2. Database Engineering    3. Digital Image Processing    4. Digital techniques    5. General    6. Image processing    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Text processing (Computer science)    10. Computer Programming    11. Storage media & peripherals   

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Good high level view but is now - 1999 - dated.
This book is good enough that it should be updated to include the major enterprise initiatives; e.g., ecommerce, the role of eforms in document management, etc.. In the rapid evolution of document automationtechnologies, 1995 was a very long time ago. ... Read more

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Organisational and Management Perspective to EDMS
As computer systems have become more and more powerful and computer storage mediums have become able to handle terabytes instead of kilobytes of data, the idea of electronic document management systems (EDMS) havebecome not only plausible but alluring. But as with any other innovativeapplication of modern information and communication technologies, merecomputerisation of existing, document centred document managementprocedures is not enough to justify the price tag attached. A totally newparadigm is required in order to tap into the real benefits of the newtechnologies. Bielawski and Boyle suggest a user centred approach to formthe basis for such a paradigm. Based on personal experiences it is easy toagree. How to create plug-in
How to create plug-in with MSVC++6. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business    2. Business records    3. Computer Bks - General Information    4. Computer Books: General    5. Computers    6. Data processing    7. Desktop Publishing    8. Desktop Publishing - General    9. Document imaging systems    10. Information Storage And Retrieval    11. Information storage and retrieval systems    12. Management    13. Reference    14. Text & document processing: general   

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Subjects:  1. Computer network resources    2. Information services    3. International Librarianship    4. International Relations - General    5. International agencies    6. Language    7. Language Arts & Disciplines    8. Library & Information Science    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Reference    11. Acquisitions & collection development    12. International institutions    13. Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science    14. Library & information services   

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Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - Data Base Management    2. Document Management    3. Optical Data Processing    4. Optical scanners    5. Optical storage devices    6. Pattern Recognition    7. Science/Mathematics   

Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - General Information    2. Computers - General Information    3. Word Processing - General    4. Word processing   

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A Group of People, A Group of Ideas. Surprised?
One of the ideas I gleaned from this text is that good design--I mean truly splendid arrangement of color and line and content and light and dark and positive and negative and the oftentimes unconscious decisions that go into the *creation* of such (where does inpiration come from, anyway? off topic)--simply can't succeed or exist or grow as a statement of mathematics.
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Subjects:  1. Computers    2. Dictionaries    3. Electronic data processing   

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Subjects:  1. Adobe InDesign    2. Computer Bks - Desktop Publishing    3. Computer Books And Software    4. Computers    5. Computers - Desktop Publishing    6. Desktop Publishing    7. Desktop Publishing - General    8. Electronic Publishing    9. General    10. Computer graphics software    11. Computers / Desktop Publishing / General