# Captions and TV Archives

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## Notes:

* Archive.org/TV&#x20;
* 2 million news shows online, searchable captions
* The "Third Eye" -- reading and analyzing the "lower third" of the screen -- What are they reporting, what and how are they summarizing?
* Uses tesseract-ocr and simhash to pull lines from multiple news channels
* [www.twitter.com/tvThirdEye](http://www.twitter.com/tvThirdEye) -- watches CNN, tweets headlines.
* CLIPS -- little JSON annotations to set start/end - points. Using JSONPatch.
* Popcorn.js at IA: <http://archive.org/pop/>&#x20;
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