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Very impressive, it's the only AI Vision toolkit so far that actually recognizes Latin and medieval scripts. I've been trying to somehow translate public-domain
by fschuett 2y ago
Very impressive, it's the only AI Vision toolkit so far that actually recognizes Latin and medieval scripts. I've been trying to somehow translate public-domain medieval books (including the artwork and original layout) to PDF, so they can be re-printed, i.e pages like this: https://i.imgur.com/YLuF9sa.png https://i.imgur.com/YLuF9sa.png - I tried a Google Vision + o1 solution, which did work to some extent, but not on the first try. This even recognizes the "E" of the artwork initial (or fixes it because of the context), which many OCR or AI solutions fail at.
The only think I'd need now is a way to get the original font and artwork positions (would be a great addition to OlmOCR). Potentially I could work up a solution to create the font manually (as most medieval books are written in the same writing style), then find the shape of the glyphs in the original image once I have the text and then mask out the artwork with some OpenCV magic.
- yorwba 2y agoYou might be interested in https://learnable-typewriter.github.io https://learnable-typewriter.github.io for extracting the glyph shapes once you have the OCRd text.