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This is a contribution by Christine Roughan of NYU. Connect with her on Twitter @cmroughan Over the summer of 2019, inspired by the promising …
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Best free OCR API, Online OCR and Searchable PDF (Sandwich PDF) Service. Try instantly, no registration required. Available as On-Premise OCR Software, too. The Cloud OCR API is a REST-based Web API to extract text from images and convert scans to searchable PDF. Free OCR software as a hosted service and as download.
TypeWright is a crowd-source correction tool available through 18thConnect. Again, the eMOP data set consists of EEBO and ECCO documents. TypeWright allows multiple users to see those EEBO and ECCO page images along with the OCR transcriptions of those pages in order to correct the transcriptions, collaboratively or alone. Once a user, or group of users has corrected an entire
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I have a bunch of PDF files that came from scanned documents. The files contain a mix of images and text. Some were scanned as images with no OCR, so each PDF page is one large image, even where ...
This is part two in a seven part resource guide for digital scholarship by Samantha Herron, our 2017 Junior Fellow. Part one is available here, and the full guide is available as a PDF download.  Creating Digital Documents The first step in creating an electronic copy of an analog (non-digital) document is usually scanning it […]
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Ocular is a state-of-the-art historical OCR system. - GitHub - tberg12/ocular: Ocular is a state-of-the-art historical OCR system.
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OCR for handwriting.
The following is a guest post by Chris Adams from the Repository Development Center at the Library of Congress, the technical lead for the World Digital Library. We live in an age of cheap bits: scanning objects en masse has never been easier, storage has never been cheaper and large-scale digitization has become routine for […]
Correcting OCR didn't have much impact on the ability to find items of interest. Better domain-specific metadata helped a lot more.