Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project

Michael Bryant; Tobias Blanke; Mark Hedges; Richard Palmer

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_72

Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project

Michael Bryant, Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges, Richard Palmer

Digital Humanities

King's College London

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Abstract

In this paper we present some initial results of OCRopodium project to build a scalable workflow for OCR of historical collections. Large-scale digitisation projects dealing with text-based historical material face challenges that are not well-catered-to by commercial software. Open source tools allow for better customisation to match these requirements, particularly with regard to character model training and per-project language modelling.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010
Editors	Mounia Lalmas, Joemon Jose, Andreas Rauber, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Ingo Frommholz
Place of Publication	Berlin and New York
Publisher	Springer
Pages	522 - 525
Number of pages	4
Volume	N/A
Edition	N/A
ISBN (Print)	9783642154638
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_72
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries - Glasgow, SCOTLAND Duration: 6 Sept 2010 → 10 Sept 2010

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Volume	6273
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

Conference

Conference	14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
City	Glasgow, SCOTLAND
Period	6/09/2010 → 10/09/2010

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Bryant, M., Blanke, T., Hedges, M., & Palmer, R. (2010). Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project. In M. Lalmas, J. Jose, A. Rauber, F. Sebastiani, & I. Frommholz (Eds.), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010 (N/A ed., Vol. N/A, pp. 522 - 525). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Vol. 6273). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_72

Bryant, Michael ; Blanke, Tobias ; Hedges, Mark et al. / Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010. editor / Mounia Lalmas ; Joemon Jose ; Andreas Rauber ; Fabrizio Sebastiani ; Ingo Frommholz. Vol. N/A N/A. ed. Berlin and New York : Springer, 2010. pp. 522 - 525 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ).

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Bryant, M , Blanke, T , Hedges, M & Palmer, R 2010, Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project. in M Lalmas, J Jose, A Rauber, F Sebastiani & I Frommholz (eds), Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010. N/A edn, vol. N/A, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , vol. 6273, Springer, Berlin and New York, pp. 522 - 525, 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Glasgow, SCOTLAND, 6/09/2010. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_72

Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project. / Bryant, Michael ; Blanke, Tobias ; Hedges, Mark et al.
Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010. ed. / Mounia Lalmas; Joemon Jose; Andreas Rauber; Fabrizio Sebastiani; Ingo Frommholz. Vol. N/A N/A. ed. Berlin and New York: Springer, 2010. p. 522 - 525 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Vol. 6273).

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Bryant M , Blanke T , Hedges M, Palmer R. Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project. In Lalmas M, Jose J, Rauber A, Sebastiani F, Frommholz I, editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference, ECDL 2010. N/A ed. Vol. N/A. Berlin and New York: Springer. 2010. p. 522 - 525. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_72

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