On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Leandro DUTRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/4/25, David Haslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I was thinking that any historic text that used something other than a > modern > > Latin typeface, such a technique might have better chances of success. > > Indeed, but has it been proven?
A basic search of Google Scholar turns up a massive list of hits relative to both neural networks and machine learning in the realm of OCR. ANNs are often cited in OCR as one of the more base applications of the theory. I'm currently engaged in NLP research at the University of Texas at Dallas under a pair of advisers who specialize in machine learning. If you listen to them, there's not a single problem in this world that can't be solved with machine learning techniques (I guess you might call it their "golden hammer.") While I don't share their sold-out enthusiasm for it, this is a prime example of where it is highly useful. > > And what are the chances that such a technique will show up in free > software OCR such as Google's Tesseract? I haven't looked at Tesseract myself, but there are plenty of FOSS implementations of machine learning algorithms. I have used both weka and Mallet - and they both contain an ANN appliaction. Integrating them should not be incredibly difficult. It might require a little more image processing than I am used to, but I have done a minor amount of that - enough to be able to work with people who know more and not be a hindrance. > > > > -- > skype:leandro.gfc.dutra?chat Yahoo!: ymsgr:sendIM?lgcdutra > +55 (11) 3040 7300 r155 gTalk: xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > +55 (11) 9406 7191 ICQ/AIM: aim:GoIM?screenname=61287803 > +55 (11) 5685 2219 MSN: msnim:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page