The German Newspaper Portal brings together digitised newspaper collections from various cultural heritage institutions. Our partners are responsible for digitising the newspapers, i.e. scanning and capturing the full texts. Different software and standards are used in the process. The resulting scans and full texts are transferred to the German Newspaper Portal without any changes, so that the newspaper portal contains full texts of varying quality.
The time of origin of the full texts can also play a role: There have been major technical improvements in recent years, meaning that full texts created during more recent digitisation projects are often of significantly better quality than older full texts.
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