Improving the Workflow for Creation of Textual Versions of Polish Historical Document
[ 1 ] Instytut Informatyki, Wydział Informatyki, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee
2013
chapter in monograph
english
- OCR
- digital libraries
- digitsation
EN 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can be included in digitisation workflow to increase the number and enhance the quality of full text representations of historical documents.This kind of documents is well represented in Polish digital libraries and can offer interesting opportunities for digital humanities researchers.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.
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