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2020
Conference paper (unpublished)
Assessing the Impact of OCR Quality on Downstream NLP Tasks
A growing volume of heritage data is being digitized and made available as text via optical character recognition (OCR). Scholars and libraries are increasingly using OCR-generated text for retrieval and analysis. However, the process of creating text through OCR introduces varying degrees of error to the text. The impact of... -
2019
Conference paper (published)
Cross-disciplinary Collaborations to Enrich Access to Non-Western Language Material in the Cultural Heritage Sector
The British Library is home to millions of items representing every age of written civilisation, including books, manuscripts and newspapers in all written languages. Large digitisation programmes currently underway are opening up access to this rich and unique historical content on an ever increasing scale. However, particularly for historical material...Derrick, Tom ; McGregor, Nora
HTR, page analysis, layout analysis, recognition, Bangla script, Arabic script, OCR, and datasets