Tag: OCR
Image Enhancement talk from Niall Anderson
Niall took us through an overview of why Image Enhancement was necessary for OCR use and what the current state of the art is as practiced by the IMPACT partners.
Recent Developments in OCR
Now Apostolos Antonacapoulos of USAL is presenting Permormance Evaluation in Document Recognition Workflows, showing the way the sophisticated Ground Truth in IMPACT is produced, and how it is used to evaluate all tools that contibute to OCR results. He tells us that for him, as an image scientist, IMPACT was a wonderful opportunity to gather … Continue reading "Recent Developments in OCR"
CONCERT crowdsourcing tool – Lotte Wilms & Ewoud Sanders #impactdemo
Manual correction of OCR is expensive and time-consuming. That’s why IBM has developed the CONCERT tool in IMPACT, a crowdsourcing tool with which users can correct OCR results in a very efficient way. The focus is on productivity – the Adaptive OCR engine is trained on the basis of the corrections, which lowers the number of errors.
Experimentele OCR – Lotte Wilms #impactdemo
IMPACT also develops three experimental OCR tools: Wordspotting (developed by NCSR Demokritos) – based on the recognition of complete words Inventory Extraction (developed by the University of Innsbruck) – makes use of character clustering Typewritten OCR (developed by PRImA, Universiteit van Salford) – for typewritten documents
OCR in libraries – some practical remarks
Next, Günter Mühlberger of Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol (University and Regional Library Tyrol) talks about the situation with regard to full-text digitisation in Europe and elsewhere. He notes that in Europe, OCR has not always been a standard part of the workflow, so there is much legacy digital material that has never been OCR’d – … Continue reading "OCR in libraries – some practical remarks"
Optical Character Recognition – introduction and overview
Michael Fuchs of Abbyy starts by explaining the work of his company within IMPACT: Abbyy provides the other partners with access to its FineReader SDK, and uses the experiments and digital text material within IMPACT to hone and test its own products and technology. He identifies Fraktur/Gothic script as being a particular difficulty for state … Continue reading "Optical Character Recognition – introduction and overview"