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Dematerialization and digitalization of historical documents are key elements for their availability, preservation and diffusion. Unfortunately, the conversion from handwritten to digitalized documents presents several technical challenges.
The XDOCS project is created with the main goal of making available and extending the usability of historical documents for a great variety of audience, like scholars, institutions and libraries. In this paper, the core elements of XDOCS, i.e. page dewarping and word spotting technique, are described and two new applications, i.e. annotation/indexing and search tool, are presented.
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The XDOCS project is currently underway at SATA s.r.l. in collaboration with the University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, and co-funded by the Emilia-Romagna regional administration.
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Bolelli, F., Borghi, G., Grana, C. (2018). XDOCS: An Application to Index Historical Documents. In: Serra, G., Tasso, C. (eds) Digital Libraries and Multimedia Archives. IRCDL 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 806. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73165-0_15
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