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DocExplore: overcoming cultural and physical barriers to access ancient documents

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In this paper, we describe DocExplore, an integrated software suite centered on the handling of digitized documents with an emphasis on ancient manuscripts. This software suite allows the augmentation and exploration of ancient documents of cultural interest. Specialists can add textual and multimedia data and metadata to digitized documents through a graphical interface that does not require technical knowledge. They are helped in this endeavor by sophisticated document analysis tools that allows for instance to spot words or patterns in images of documents. The suite is intended to ease considerably the process of bringing locked away historical materials to the attention of the general public by covering all the steps from managing a digital collection to creating interactive presentations suited for cultural exhibitions. Its genesis and sustained development reside in a collaboration of archivists, historians and computer scientists, the latter being not only in charge of the development of the software, but also of creating and incorporating novel pattern recognition for document analysis techniques.

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DocEng '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM symposium on Document engineering
September 2012
256 pages
ISBN:9781450311168
DOI:10.1145/2361354
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  1. authoring system
  2. cultural heritage
  3. document image analysis
  4. document indexing
  5. historical documents
  6. manuscripts
  7. virtual book
  8. word spotting

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September 4 - 7, 2012
Paris, France

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  • (2014)Reusing Multimedia Content for the Creation of Interactive Experiences in Cultural InstitutionsA Roadmap in Digital Heritage Preservation on 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage - Volume 835510.1007/978-3-662-44630-0_8(104-118)Online publication date: 15-Sep-2014
  • (2013)Spot It! Finding Words and Patterns in Historical DocumentsProceedings of the 2013 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition10.1109/ICDAR.2013.208(1039-1043)Online publication date: 25-Aug-2013

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