From Vienna to the World: Launching the First Public Syriac HTR Model on Transkribus
Readers of The Digital Orientalist, you are among the first to know! Today’s post is dedicated to the release of…
Category: OCR
Resources for Kanjur and Tanjur Studies: Introduction and Review
The Resources for Kanjur & Tanjur Studies (rKTs) is an open-access digital platform that is currently the largest database of…
Partition Revisited: Bridging History and Technology to Trace Refugee Rehabilitation
This is a guest post by Gursimran Kaur Butalia. The Partition of India in 1947 remains a deeply personal and…
Recent Advancements: Unlocking Syriac and Arabic Texts on Archive.org
For scholars and students of Syriac and Arabic, the vast digital text library of Archive.org has always held immense potential.…
Komonjo Camera, the AI App for Reading Cursive Japanese Characters
Overview In June 2023, TOPPAN Corporation released an application for iOS, the Komonjo Camera 古文書カメラ. This was followed by an…
Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part Two)
This is a guest post by Jiajun Zou. See bio at the end of this post. Find part one here. Part…
Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)
This is a guest post by Jiajun Zou. See bio at the end of this post. Part I Tianyige Ming…
An Experiment with Gemini Pro LLM for Chinese OCR and Metadata Extraction
This is a guest post by Eric H. C. Chow. For more information, see at the end of this post.…
An Interview on DASH: Digital Analysis of Syriac Handwriting
In previous years I have posted some interviews with different projects to trace the history of the Syriac Digital Humanities.…
The Digitization of a Large Latin-Chinese Dictionary
This is a guest post by Christopher Francese, Asbury J. Clarke Professor of Classical Studies, Dickinson College francese@dickinson.edu In 2016…