The BLE-X Navigator search interface can be accessed at http://ble-x.de/explorer (in German).
Challenge
Develop an exploratory web search interface for the research reports and conference proceedings published by the European Research Association for Sheet Metal Working (Europäische Forschungsgesellschaft für Blechverarbeitung e.V.)
Core Technologies
- OCR analysis of scanned documents with custom document parser for structure extraction and support of within-document search
- search result visualization as classical list (left) and similarity space (center) using multidimensional scaling (MDS) and Adaptive SpringLens
- backend implementation: Java, Python
- frontend implementation: HTML5 (jQuery)