OCR Archives - IMPACT Centre of Competence

IMPACT CLARIN K-Centre in digitisation (IMPACT-CKC)

K(nowledge)-centres are important components of the CLARIN Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure, as these are the places where people from within and outside the CLARIN community can get access to specialized knowledge and expertise in many fields. At this moment CLARIN has 16 K-centres, covering a variety of languages (and language families), modalities, data types, technologies and … Continue reading

ScanTailor, new tool at IMPACT Demonstrator platform

Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It gives the ability of: splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, binarising, among others features. The provided input are raw scans, and it will provode pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or DJVU file as an output. Scan Tailor is licensed under Free Software, General … Continue reading

New version release of LIMB Capture

The IMPACT Centre of Competence member company, i2S DIGIBOOK, has just released a new version of their capture software LIMB.

Impact at CERL ANNUAL SEMINAR 2014

Impact will be next 28th of October in CERL ANNUAL SEMINAR 2014 ‘The Application of Text Encoding Facilities to Digital Versions of European Early Books’, that will take place in the National Library of Oslo (Norway). In the conference, Tomasz Parkoła (Digital Libraries Team, Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznan) will talk about ‘The Impact Centre … Continue reading

DFG announces OCR technology program in Germany

The DFG in Germany has announced a research programm to enhance digitization and OCR related technology. It covers similar topics as addressed in Impact.

DATeCH 4th Session – Best practices and experiences

The second Digitisation Day started with two parallel sessions. The scientific presentations related to “Best practices and experiences in digitisation of cultural heritage”, and the round table “Future research for the digital library”.

Working together to improve text digitisation techniques

2nd Succeed hackathon at the University of Alicante Is there anyone out there still thinking that a hackathon is a malicious break-in? Far from it. It is the best way for developers and researchers to get together and work on new tools and innovations. The2nd developers workshop / hackathon organised on 10-11 April by the Succeed Project was a case … Continue reading

Succeed Hackathon at the University of Alicante

On the 10th and 11th of April 2014 at the University of Alicante, the Succeed project held a hackathon whose aim was to look at improving the state-of-the-art open-source tools for the digitisation of textual content such as books and newspapers.

Cost estimation for 100% postcorrection

Which will be the cost estimation for a project pursuing 100% post correction of OCR in the full text offered to the users (based on an average book of 200-300 pages)? An example is the Gutenberg project (http://www.gutenberg.org/). Has your institution experience on this service?

The IMPACT Framework – From Tools to Workflows

This practical session started with the attendees introducing themselves and splitting up into 3 groups, so that each could work on a different set of tasks based on a Case Study.