On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Michael Della Bitta wrote:
Tesseract and ABYY Recognition Server,
I just used tesseract to ocr 450 tiffs and it did a pretty good job. We had a
student compare the scans to those done by Abbey reader and while they differed
some the results were very comparable.
If your collection includes items that were printed using the Fraktur typeface
(e.g., many 19th-century German texts), OCRopus might be a good choice. ABBYY
has a plugin for such fonts, but there is a volume limit per license.
Markus Wust
Anyone interested in having a hackfest on the pre-conference day? Something
like last year's CURATEcamp or the Access hackfests?
There's a proposal on the wiki:
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2012_preconference_proposals
And a link to topics from there. Hopefully a coffee house will
***Please forward as appropriate***
JCDL (Joint Conference on Digital Libraries) 2012 Call For
Participation June 10-14, 2012 GWU Washington, DC, USA
CFP JCDL 2012
Hosted by George Washington University
June 10-14, 2012 Washington, DC, USA
http://www.jcdl2012.info/
Call for Papers
The
That would be great- I'm interested!
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Lisa Kurt
Emerging Technologies Librarian
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center/0322
University of Nevada, Reno
phone: 775.682.5706
email: lk...@unr.edu
From: Code for Libraries
