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This paper describes improvements which can be included in digitisation workflow to increase the number and enhance the quality of full text representations of historical documents.This kind of documents is well represented in Polish digital libraries and can offer interesting opportunities for digital humanities researchers. Proposed solution focuses on changing existing approach to OCR and simplifying the manual process of text correction through crowdsourcing. Tools required to implement these enhancements are available in Virtual Transcription Laboratory (VTL) prototype, developed in the framework of SYNAT (http:// www.synat.pl) project. In the last chapter paper describes results of the experiment with the custom OCR recognition profiles which proves that proposed approach is a viable alternative to existing OCR practices.
Presented results have been developed as a part of PSNC activities within the scope of the SYNAT project (http://www.synat.pl) funded by the Polish National Center for Research and Development (grant no SP/I/1/77065/10)
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Dudczak, A., Kmieciak, M., Mazurek, C., Stroiński, M., Werla, M., Węglarz, J. (2013). Improving the Workflow for Creation of Textual Versions of Polish Historical Documents. In: Bembenik, R., Skonieczny, L., Rybinski, H., Kryszkiewicz, M., Niezgodka, M. (eds) Intelligent Tools for Building a Scientific Information Platform. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 467. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35647-6_14
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