In this paper a complete OCR methodology for recognizing historical documents, either
printed or handwritten without any knowledge of the font, is presented. This methodology …

During the last 20 years, significant research studies have been undertaken for automatic
recognition of printed documents. The same is true for Bangla, a major Indian script. All …

Humanists face problems that are comparable to their colleagues in the sciences. Like
scientists, humanists have electronic sources and datasets that are too large for traditional …

While digital libraries based on page images and automatically generated text have made
possible massive projects such as the Million Book Library, Open Content Alliance, Google …

The expanded access to millions of books provided by large-scale digitization initiatives
(LSDIs) like Google Books and the Open Content Alliance (OCA) has the potential to …

We report on a case study on OCR of eighteenth century books conducted in the IMPACT
project. After introducing the IMPACT project and its approach to lexicon building and …

In this paper, we propose a new comprehensive methodology in order to evaluate the
performance of noisy historical document recognition techniques. We aim to evaluate not …

This work-in-progress paper briefly describes the uLab, a new method and framework for
remote hardware design laboratories, which uses Linux and FOSS to provide real-time …

As bibliotecas digitais são cruciais à investigação em Humanidades, exigindo maior eficácia
e personalização no acesso à informação. No caso dos incunábulos e livro antigo …

The described optical character recognition system is based on a multicomputer
environment. It performs faster character recognition from printed media and their forwarding …