All Outputs (2)

Quality prediction system for large-scale digitisation workflows (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Clausner, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2016). Quality prediction system for large-scale digitisation workflows. . https://doi.org/10.1109/das.2016.82

The feasibility of large-scale OCR projects can so far only be assessed by running pilot studies on subsets of the target document collections and measuring the success of different workflows based on precise ground truth, which can be very costly to... Read More about Quality prediction system for large-scale digitisation workflows.

Making Europe’s historical newspapers searchable (2016)
Journal Article
Neudecker, C., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2016). Making Europe’s historical newspapers searchable. https://doi.org/10.1109/DAS.2016.83

This paper provides a rare glimpse into the overall approach for the refinement, i.e. the enrichment of scanned historical newspapers with text and layout recognition, in the Europeana Newspapers project. Within three years, the project processed mor... Read More about Making Europe’s historical newspapers searchable.