Alan Hopkinson and Tigran Zargaryan give an overview of their experience of digitising paper-based materials in the Fundamental Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences, Armenia including some of the obstacles encountered during image processing and optical character recognition. <a href="/issue68">issue68</a> March 2012 <a href="/category/article-type/feature-article">feature article</a> <a href="/category/authors/alan-hopkinson">alan hopkinson</a>, <a href="/category/authors/tigran-zargaryan">tigran zargaryan</a>