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"...improving access to handwritten and typed documents that computers cannot accurately translate without human intervention..." Is this true?
by knicholes 8y ago
"...improving access to handwritten and typed documents that computers cannot accurately translate without human intervention..." Is this true?
- dajohnson89 8y agoyes? OCR technology has come a long way, but there's a lot of cases where it fails badly, including historical (read: non-typed and sometimes damaged) artifacts.
- acdha 8y agoHere's an example of one of the documents if you want to gauge how easy the challenge is: https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/letters-to-lincoln/1830-1839-first-forays-in-politics-and-law/mal4500010/mal4500010-1/ https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/letters-to-lincoln/1830-1839... There's a lot of academic research (see e.g. https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/ https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/) but that's in progress rather than done.
- scrooched_moose 8y agoThis one is particularly tricky: https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/civil-war-soldiers-disabled-but-not-disheartened/left-hand-penmanship-contest/ https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/civil-war-soldiers-disabled-... A left-handed penmanship contest for soldiers who lost their right arms and were relearning to write. Some of them are remarkably good considering, but some are barely legible.