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International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

ECDL 2010: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries pp 522–525Cite as

Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project

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In this paper we present some initial results of OCRopodium project to build a scalable workflow for OCR of historical collections. Large-scale digitisation projects dealing with text-based historical material face challenges that are not well-catered-to by commercial software. Open source tools allow for better customisation to match these requirements, particularly with regard to character model training and per-project language modelling.

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  1. Breuel, T.M.: The ocropus open source ocr system (2007)

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  2. The openfst project, http://www.openfst.org

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  1. Centre for e-Research, King’s College London,  

    Michael Bryant, Tobias Blanke, Mark Hedges & Richard Palmer

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, UK

    Mounia Lalmas  & Joemon Jose  & 

  2. Vienna University of Technology, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Andreas Rauber

  3. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Informazione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via G Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Fabrizio Sebastiani

  4. University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Glasgow, Uk

    Ingo Frommholz

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Bryant, M., Blanke, T., Hedges, M., Palmer, R. (2010). Open Source Historical OCR: The OCRopodium Project. In: Lalmas, M., Jose, J., Rauber, A., Sebastiani, F., Frommholz, I. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15464-5_72

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