All Outputs (4)

Navigating the storm : IMPACT, eMOP, and Agile Steering Standards (2015)
Journal Article
Mandell, L., Neudecker, C., Antonacopoulos, A., Grumbach, E., Auvil, L., Christy, M., …Samuelson, T. (2015). Navigating the storm : IMPACT, eMOP, and Agile Steering Standards. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 32(1), 189-194. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqv062

This article discusses two major initiatives tasked with developing tools to im- prove optical character recognition (OCR) or the mechanical keying of texts that are digitally available only as page images. The two initiatives are the IMProving ACces... Read More about Navigating the storm : IMPACT, eMOP, and Agile Steering Standards.

Europeana newspapers OCR workflow evaluation (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Pletschacher, S., Clausner, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2015). Europeana newspapers OCR workflow evaluation. . https://doi.org/10.1145/2809544.2809554

This paper summarises the final performance evaluation results of the OCR workflow which was employed for large-scale production in the Europeana Newspapers project. It gives a detailed overview of how the involved software performed... Read More about Europeana newspapers OCR workflow evaluation.

Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction (2015)
Book Chapter
Retsinas, G., Gatos, B., Antonacopoulos, A., Louloudis, G., & Stamatopoulos, N. (2015). Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2015) (31-38). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2809544.2809559

Recognition of low-quality historical typewritten documents can still be considered as a challenging and difficult task due to several issues i.e. the existence of faint and degraded characters, stains, tears, punch holes etc. In this paper, we explo... Read More about Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction.

ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015 (2015)
Book Chapter
Antonacopoulos, A., Clausner, C., Papadopoulos, C., & Pletschacher, S. (2015). ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015. In 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (1151-1155). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2015.7333941

This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page segmentation and region classification methods for documents with complex layouts. It describes the competition (modus operandi, dataset and evaluation methodology) held in the context o... Read More about ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015.