Lexicon-supported OCR of eighteenth century Dutch books: a case study

Jesse de Does; Katrien Depuydt

doi:10.1117/12.2008423

4 February 2013 Lexicon-supported OCR of eighteenth century Dutch books: a case study

Jesse de Does, Katrien Depuydt

Proceedings Volume 8658, Document Recognition and Retrieval XX; 86580L (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2008423
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2013, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

We report on a case study on OCR of eighteenth century books conducted in the IMPACT project. After introducing the IMPACT project and its approach to lexicon building and deployment, we zoom in to the application of IMPACT tools and data to the Dutch EDBO collection. The results are exemplified by detailed discussion of various practical options to improve text recognition beyond a baseline of running an uncustomized Finereader 10. In particular, we discuss improved recognition of long s.

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Jesse de Does and Katrien Depuydt "Lexicon-supported OCR of eighteenth century Dutch books: a case study", Proc. SPIE 8658, Document Recognition and Retrieval XX, 86580L (4 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2008423

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