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It's precisely those idiosyncrasies of early modern orthography which make it difficult to use an off-the-shelf OCR package, which is presumably why these are h
by coroxout 12y ago
It's precisely those idiosyncrasies of early modern orthography which make it difficult to use an off-the-shelf OCR package, which is presumably why these are hand-transcribed instead.
Perhaps there is a specialist antiquarian OCR package which can deal with long s, interchangeable u and v, non-standardised spelling, etc, but I have yet to come across one.
- acdha 12y agoHave you looked at The Early Modern OCR project? My understanding is that they're working on exactly that as well as simply better tools for reviewing & retraining on a large scale: http://emop.tamu.edu/ http://emop.tamu.edu/
- coroxout 12y agoNo, I hadn't, and am grateful for the link - thank you!