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Django/Jinja
270 lines
12 KiB
Django/Jinja
{% extends "nopaque.html.j2" %}
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{% block nav_content %}
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{% include 'main/_breadcrumbs.html.j2' %}
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{% endblock nav_content %}
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{% block page_content %}
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<div class="container">
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col s12">
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<h1 id="title">{{ title }}</h1>
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</div>
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<div class="col s12">
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<div class="card">
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<div class="card-content">
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<span class="card-title">What is nopaque</span>
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<p>
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Our web application nopaque combines coordinated tools such as Optical
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Character Recognition (OCR), Natrual Language Processing (NLP) and a
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powerful Keyword In Context Search (KWIC) with the CQP query language.
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</p>
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<br>
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<p>
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nopaque offers the possibility to use all tools individually or as a
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workflow. All work steps are coordinated in such a way that individual
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services can be used on top of each other. The platform supports
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researchers in converting their files into formats that can be further
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processed, automatically enriching them with information and then
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analyzing them, so that nopaque maps a large part of the research
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processes in the humanities. With this toolbox we address researchers
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in the humanities from all disciplines and levels of knowledge.
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The data generated during the processes can be downloaded after each
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step in order to evaluate or further process them with other (external) tools.
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</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="col s12">
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<ul class="collapsible">
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">1. Who is developing nopaque?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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<em>nopaque</em> is developed by a small, interdisciplinary Team at
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<em>University Bielefeld</em> called <em>Data Infrastructure and
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Digital Humanities (INF)</em>. We are part of the <em>SFB 1288 -
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Practices of comparing. Ordering and changing the world</em>.
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</p>
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<p>For mor information <a href="https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/sfb1288/">
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visit the SFB1288 web site</a> or
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<a href="https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/sfb1288/projekte/inf.html">
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our team page</a>.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">2. Is nopaque free to use for everyone?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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Yes nopaque is free to use for everyone! It does not matter if you
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are a researcher in the humanities, a student or just someone who
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wants to learn something new. Just <a href="http://nopaque.localhost/auth/register">
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sign up for it</a> and try it out!
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">3. How much does it cost to use nopaque?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>nopaque and the services provided by it are free of charge.</span>
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</div>
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<li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">4. Why is nopaque written in lower case?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>We just think that nopaque with a lower case first letter looks
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better than Nopaque with an upper case first letter. Simple as that!
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</span>
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</div>
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<li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">5. Why the name nopaque?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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When we started developing nopaque we wanted to have a cool name
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like <a href="https://voyant-tools.org/">voyant</a> which can be translated
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to light or seeing. So we choose opaque thinking that it means that
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something is transparent. After a while we realized that we misunderstood
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the meaning of the word (opaque means non-transparent) and simply
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negated it ending up with nopaque.
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</p>
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<p>
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We also think nopaque fits pretty nicley because we want you to be
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able to make your texts transparent and see through them with our
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analysis tool to gain knew knowledge about them.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">6. Is nopaque FOSS/Open Source?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>Yes nopaque only uses free and open source software (FOSS). You
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can find the <a href="https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288inf/opaque">
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source code in our gitlab repository</a>.
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">7. What software/technologies is nopaque using/build with?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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nopaques frontend (what the user sees) is written in HTML 5
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and Javascript. The backend (stuff that happens on our servers)
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is realized with <a href="https://palletsprojects.com/p/flask/">
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Flask</a>, a python based lightweight WSGI web application
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framework. We utilize <a href="https://www.docker.com/">Docker</a>
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to easily deploy nopaque on our servers.
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</p>
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<p>
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The client server real time comminication is implemented using
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<a href="https://flask-socketio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">Flask-SocketIO</a>.
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</p>
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<p>Every service (e.g. OCR or NLP) provided by nopaque is using
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established opensource software. Take a look at their related
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questions to learn more about them.</p>
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<p>
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For more details take a look at the
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<a href="https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288inf/opaque">source code</a>.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">8. What software/technology is used for the File Setup service?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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The File Setup service uses <a href="https://imagemagick.org/index.php">ImageMagick</a>
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to merge your images into one file.
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</p>
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<p>
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For more details take a look at the
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<a href="https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288inf/file-setup">source code</a>.
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</p>
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</span>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">9. What software/technology is used for the OCR service?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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The OCR service uses <a href="https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract">Tesseract OCR.</a>
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</p>
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<p>
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For more details take a look at the
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<a href="https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288inf/ocr">source code</a>.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">10. What software/technology is used for the NLP service?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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The NLP service uses <a href="https://spacy.io/">spaCy</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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For more details take a look at the
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<a href="https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288inf/nlp">source code</a>.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">11. What software/technology is used for the Analysis service?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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The Corpus Analysis service uses the <a href="http://cwb.sourceforge.net/">
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IMS Open Corpus Workbench (CWB).</a> We developed a Python
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library for the IMS Open Corpus Workbench (CWB) corpus query
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interface (CQi) API to be able to request query results from the CWB
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server using simple Python code. The library is
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<a href="https://pypi.org/project/cqi/">avilable on PyPi.</a>
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</p>
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<p>
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For more details take a look at the
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<a href="https://gitlab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb1288inf/cqpweb">source code</a>.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">12. Can I download/export my results and processed files?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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Yes. You can download everything that is the result of a service
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and save it somwhere else. You can download your results depending
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on the service in easily reusable formats like TXT, PDF, JSON, XML
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and many more. This also empowers you to use your results in other
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third party software to continue you research beyond the capabiltiys
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of nopaque.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">13. Is my research data private?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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Your uploaded research data cannot be accessed by any third party.
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Take a look at our <a href="http://nopaque.localhost/privacy_policy">GDPR</a>
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statement and <a href="http://nopaque.localhost/terms_of_use">terms of use</a>
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if you want to learn more about how we handle your data.
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<p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">14. Could I use nopaque as a permant storage for my research data?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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nopaque saves your research data in theory as long as your account
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exists. But nopaque is not a cloud storage solution! We encourage
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you to permanently save your data somwhere else.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">15. What does OCR mean?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. OCR is the automatical
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conversion of images of handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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<li>
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<div class="collapsible-header">16. What does NLP mean?</div>
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<div class="collapsible-body">
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<span>
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<p>
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NLP stands for natural language processing wich is a subfield of
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linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence concerned
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with the interactions between computers and human language.
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For example nopaque uses spaCy to automtically tag every word with
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its part of speech tag which describes its grammatical property.
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</p>
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</span>
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</div>
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</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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{% endblock %}
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