Practicing Reading Cursive Japanese with Miwo
Most people involved in Japanese studies with access to a smartphone or tablet will be aware of the kuzushiji (cursive…
Category: OCR
Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 2
The first part of this post covered starting a project with eScriptorium and properly segmenting a page to prepare it…
Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 1
Exegetes interested in textual criticism need ready access to digitized and digitalized versions of Hebrew manuscripts so that they must…
Transkribus and Kirishitanban: Some Initial Experiments
Inspired by a workshop given by Dr. Alex Mallett (Waseda University) that I attended in May last year, I recently…
The multiple purposes of neural network for the recognition of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics complexity
This is a contribution by Andrea Barucci, Constanza Cucci, Massimiliano Franci, Marco Loschiavo and Fabrizio Argenti. For their short bios,…
A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 2
This week we publish the second part of “A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic”…
A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1
This week’s guest contribution is by Ishida Yuri, Okayama University, Special-Appointment Assistant Professor, and Shinoda Tomoaki, Tokyo University of Foreign…
Automated Transcription of a Syriac Work’s Translated Text
During last spring I thought a lot about the topic for this post. I even felt a certain discouragement, which…
Innovative Designs on Ottoman Turkish Search Engines: Wikilala and Muteferriqa
Every humanities researcher dreams of finding keywords in archival documents quickly and easily. Thanks to OCR technology, we have realized…
Toward an Ecosystem of the Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, 5th and Final Part
This is the sixth and final post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on…