Historical documents
Integrating Optical Character Recognition and Machine Translation of Historical Documents
... While research on improving Optical Character Recognition (OCR) algorithms is ongoing, our assess- ment is that Machine Translation (MT) will continue to produce unacceptable translation errors (or non- translations) ...
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Semantics Based Content Extraction in Typewritten Historical Documents
... that historical documents suffer from artefacts due to ageing, extended use and previous preservation attempts all of which variably affect the visual quality of the information ...
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An Efficient Phase-Based Binarization Method for Degraded Historical Documents
... This paper proposes an improved document images binarization method which is effective for common types of image degradation, including uneven illumination, contrast variation, ink-bleed, smears, faded ink or faint ...
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Digitalizing Historical Documents in the Current Disruptive Industrial Era
... There are several procedures for collecting data in this research. This study follows the suggestion of social research scholars [10] in data collection: identifying key persons to send questionnaires, pretesting ...
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A Complete Approach to the Conversion of Typewritten Historical Documents for Digital Archives
... convert historical typewritten (but not necessarily limited to that) ...documents. Historical documents are unique in many ways and dealing with them requires special consideration both in ...
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Segmentation of Historical documents using Region Based Segmentation Method
... In this work first we need to collect the database of Ganga and Ashoka historical documents from the different places, where those belongs according to the era. After creating database passes these images ...
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Flexible text recovery from degraded typewritten historical documents
... in historical documents, it is perhaps obvious that global methods are not appropriate due to the non-uniformity of the text and the background in the presence of artefacts as mentioned ...
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A Writer Identification System of Greek Historical Documents using MATLAB
... The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes the theoretical part of the historical documents. Section 3 describes the research about the writer identification procedure and the ...
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DATABASE DEVELOPMENT OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS: SKEW DETECTION AND CORRECTION
... handwritten historical documents are collected from different places to build a huge ...database. Documents over here are of two kinds mainly palm leaf manuscripts and paper manuscripts which are ...
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The value of historical documents for hazard zone mapping
... above, historical documents can enormously add to the knowledge about local hydrological ...of historical documents has to get more attention by officials and scientists alike when attempting ...
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Source model of the 1703 Genroku Kanto earthquake tsunami based on historical documents and numerical simulations: modeling of an offshore fault along the Sagami Trough
... Three historical documents are available that describe the 1703 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Choshi City: the “Genba-Sendaisyu” (Editorial Committee for the History of Chiba Prefecture 1958); a ...
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Handwritten Text Recognition for Historical Documents
... HTR should not be confused with Optical Char- acter Recognition (OCR). Nowadays, OCR sys- tems are capable to recognizing text with a very good accuracy (Breuel, 2008; Ratzlaff, 2003). However, OCR products are very far ...
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Choosing Shape Features by means of Genetic Algorithms for Glyph clustering of Historical Documents
... of historical documents is a non-trivial task since the variations of glyphs in different documents is innumer- ...transcribing historical documents by showing him similar occurrences ...
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Effective geometric restoration of distorted historical documents for large scale digitization
... for historical documents, neither of the above geometric restoration technique can be widely recognised as an efficient ...of historical documents practically needs a geometrical restoration ...
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Unsupervised Transcription of Historical Documents
... Relatively little prior work has built models specif- ically for transcribing historical documents. Some of the challenges involved have been addressed (Ho and Nagy, 2000; Huang et al., 2006; Kae and ...
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Lying truths: diaries as historical documents and the craft of fiction
... There is no doubt that diaries can offer personal revelations to illuminate the precarious glittering existence of past lives. If every history is, in its own way as personal as poetry, surely the legacy of words from an ...
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A New Binarization Algorithm for Historical Documents
... scanned documents using over 5.4 million synthetic images in the DIB-Document Image Binarization 253. platform[r] ...
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Image quality issues in digitization projects of historical documents
... Sine - - wave patterns: wave patterns: to evaluate the to evaluate the modulation transfer modulation transfer function (MTF) function (MTF) Square. Square - - wave wave patterns[r] ...
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Data dreams: planning for the future of historical medical documents
... extant historical medical records are descendants exploring their family histories and professional ...aggregate historical data first face the difficulty of gaining permission to access substantial sets of ...
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Historical Fictions
... The subtitle of Walter Scott's most well-known novel, Waverley, forms the basis of a particular conception of “historical fiction”. Indeed, the phrase “'Tis Sixty Years Since” is the grounding for the rules of the ...
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