Current approaches on Automatic Recognition of Ethiopic script
The script used by the Christian cultures of Ethiopia is ancient, developing from the Sabaean script in the first centuries…
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Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 1
How to train custom OCR/HTR models in Kraken
A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 2)
In my previous post on how to use the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR), I walked through the process…
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
OCR of historical printing in Bengali using segmentation and recognition models trained in Kraken from an annotated dataset of Bengali texts published between 1860 and 1940.
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eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This…
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Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 3
This is the third part of the interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…
How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
(Part 2) Although we initially thought that the Ethiopian community would find something to satisfy its curiosity, it was clear…
eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position…
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Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2
This is the second part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian…
Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations
In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model…