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From Scanned Travel Books to a Page-Aware Corpus: Testing Microsoft Foundry for Historical Research on Central Asia
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From Scanned Travel Books to a Page-Aware Corpus: Testing Microsoft Foundry for Historical Research on Central Asia

This is a guest piece by Aizat Ishembieva. This post describes how structured text extraction and the creation of a…

The Digital OrientalistOctober 9, 2026
Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools
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Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

In designing an introductory Digital Humanities class, I am often faced with the question of how best to incorporate linguistic…

Sunayani BhattacharyaNovember 25, 2025
Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus
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Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus

In my last post, I explored how to collate TEI XML transcriptions of Greek New Testament manuscripts, yielding a TEI…

Zach ButlerJanuary 14, 2025
Collating Greek Manuscripts
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Collating Greek Manuscripts

Introduction In my last post, I explored tools in a software package called Criticus that helps move from transcription to…

Zach ButlerOctober 11, 2024
Criticus: A tool to move from transcription to collation
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Criticus: A tool to move from transcription to collation

Introduction In my last few posts, I explored how Python could be used to do some codicological analysis of manuscripts…

Zach ButlerMarch 15, 2024
Some additional thoughts on regular expressions… for text analysis
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Some additional thoughts on regular expressions… for text analysis

In an earlier post here on The Digital Orientalist, Mariana Zorkina introduced the topic of regular expressions (or in short…

Gian RomingerDecember 15, 2023
Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2
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Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2

Learn about Kraken’s segmentation model and the process of training our own custom segmentation models for layout analysis tasks.

Rohan ChauhanNovember 3, 2023
A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 3)
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A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 3)

This post continues my series on using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) for researching and transcribing Manuscripts of…

Zach ButlerOctober 13, 2023
A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)
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A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 1)

Greg Paulson has already written a very helpful introduction to the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) as a guest…

Zach ButlerFebruary 28, 2023

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