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IMPACT Final Conference – Digitisation Tips Parallel Session

Aly Conteh (BL) hosted the parallel Q&A session on Digitisation tips. Pannel members included Astrid Verheusen (Manager of the Digital Library Programme and Head of the Innovative Projects Department, KB National Library of the Netherlands), Geneviève Cron (OCR expert, Bibliothèque nationale de France), Christa Müller (Director Digital Services Department, Austrian National Library), Majlis Bremer-Laamanen (Director … Continue reading

IMPACT Final Conference – The Functional Extension Parser: A Document Understanding Platform with Günter Mühlberger

Günter Mühlberger chaired the 3rd block: Tools for Improved Text Recognition. However, as time ran out in the session he chose to postpone the delivery of his talk on the FEP until the second day Research Parallel Sessions.

IMPACT Final Conference – Post-Correction on IMPACT with Ulrich Reffle

Developing a unique user tool with a team led by Prof. Schulz, Ulrich Reffle along with Annette Gotscharek, Christoph Ringlstetter and Thorsten Vobl. at the University of Munich have potentially revolutionised the speed at which researchers can analyse texts.

Spezial-Lexika zur Erschließung historischer Dokumente

Annette Gotscharek of the Centre for Information and Language Processing of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University talked about special dictionaries and their impact on OCR. Spelling variations and no longer used words are a big problem for OCR, making a lexicon adapted to historical texts a necessity for the creation of correct full text.

IMPACT/myGrid – Taverna Hackathon – 14-15/11/2011 – Manchester UK

IMPACT & MyGrid will run a free hackathon on the use of Taverna workflows in IMPACT and cultural heritage digitisation. This workshop will be on the 14-15th November 2011 and held in Manchester, UK.

Results of OCR Research: IMPACT Demo Day in Munich – Ergebnisse aus der OCR-Forschung: IMPACT Demo Day in München

The Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ) of the Bavarian State Library invites you to Munich on Tuesday 11 October, for the conference “Results of OCR Research: IMPACT Demo Day”.

IMPACT Demo Day at British Library – 12th July 2011

The next IMPACT Demo-day was held on the 12th July at the British Library. With an invited audience of around 40 people with about half of these being internal BL staff and half from other institutes and libraries interested in mass digitisation. The BL Demo-day covered a similar breadth of material to previous workshops but … Continue reading

IMPACT Workshop in Rouen: exchanging views, finding synergies

The workshop kicked off this morning with a welcome by organizer Thierry Paquet of the University of Rouen, who has been involved in OCR related research for a long time. There is a good mix of attendants here, people from digital library research, OCR specialists, industry like ABBYY and Jouve, language specialists, image scientists… and … Continue reading

IMPACT Workshop: 31 March 2011, Rouen

This one day workshop will disseminate the latest progress achieved in the field of Optical Character Recognition systems (OCR) within the framework of various digitization projects for Digital Libraries.

First IMPACT Demonstration Day: 16 February 2011,The Hague

On 1 January 2008 the project IMPACT – Improving access to text started. Now, three years on, the first results of the project are clearly visible and ready for testing. We would like to invite you for the first IMPACT Demo Day (in Dutch), where the Dutch team will bring you up to speed in … Continue reading