archives de maths sur Internet

It appears that we have some stiff competition. The NUMDAM project has

an impressive list of journals digitized:

http://archive.numdam.org/numdam-bin/browse

with some nice metadata available

http://www.numdam.org/en/infotech.php

Another snapshot is provided by

http://www.library.cornell.edu/math/digitalization.php

at Cornell.

As far as OCR of mathematics is concerned, my efforts with Google have

not yielded anything "new". For reference these were interesting:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=3304

http://units.sla.org/division/dpam/pam-bulletin/vol31/no1/mathematics.html

http://www.inftyproject.org/en/

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&id=190438

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=628842 (and its references)

Even this large list

http://tev.itc.it/OCR/ResearchProjects.html

of research projects only mentions 1 that has to do with mathematics.

However, I have searched for sources of freely available TIFFs for

experimental purposes - and did not really find any. While it might be

possible to get some from Cornell (see

http://historical.library.cornell.edu/math/help.html), this is not obvious.