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At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (2) : A Brief History of Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition in France

Introduction The first article of this series explored recent advances in the digital study of Arabic script in France in…

Ilyes MechentelApril 22, 2025

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At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France

As Dominique Stutzmann points out in an article for the renowned French media outlet L’Histoire in 2017, paleography has undergone…

Ilyes MechentelDecember 5, 2024

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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…

Rohan ChauhanNovember 15, 2022