Ocropodium: Open source OCR for small-scale historical archives

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-86

  Blanke, Tobias ^a   Bryant, Michael ^a   Hedges, Mark ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

historical archives; open source; optical character recognition; workflow

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY EVALUATION; CHARACTER MODELS; COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE; HISTORICAL ARCHIVE; LANGUAGE MODELLING; OPEN SOURCE TOOLS; OPEN SOURCES; WORKFLOW;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84857775288     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551511429418     Document Type: Review

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