Well, that would be awesome, Gerard. OCR could be a critic feature of Wikisource (for example), the best softwares are all commercial (eg. ABBYY Finereader) and they cost a LOT. It would be very useful to understand what IMPACT does and where it is going. Moreover, Wikisource can be a testbed directly for OCR softwares, (because we have human proofreaders :-), and I think this is waht Remì was thinking :-)
Aubrey 2012/6/7 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > Hoi, > If nobody else is going, I could go and blog about it .. Please let me know > Thanks, > Gerard > > On 7 June 2012 00:15, Rémi Mathis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear you, >> >> Does anybody go to this conference on IMPACT program (aiming at improving >> the OCR softwares, especially on early-printed books)? >> >> Best, >> >> Rémi >> >> * >> >> >> IMPACT event: Project Outcomes* >> *Tuesday 26 June 2012, KB National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague* >> >> The programme of this event is now available through * >> http://www.digitisation.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/IMPACT_Program_26June2012.pdf >> *<http://www.digitisation.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/IMPACT_Program_26June2012.pdf> >> . >> At this event, the IMPACT project outcomes will be presented by IMPACT >> staff, along with results of several pilots that have been conducted with >> some of the tools at IMPACT libraries in early 2012. >> >> *IMPACT outcomes* >> The IMPACT project (January 2008 - June 2012) is a European research >> project focused on innovating OCR software and language technology to >> improve the digitisation of historical printed text. IMPACT is led by the >> KB National Library of the Netherlands. Our group of partners includes >> several major European national libraries, universities, research centres >> and two private sector companies (ABBYY and IBM Haifa). IMPACT recently >> launched the IMPACT Centre of Competence (*www.digitisation.eu*), a >> productive network of experts in digitisation that will build on the >> research and development of partners from the IMPACT project and continue >> to improve access to text. >> At the end of the project in June 2012, IMPACT is presenting the >> following results: >> >> - The improved commercial OCR engine ABBYY FineReader 10 (the IMPACT >> FineReader) >> - IBM's Adaptive OCR engine with the CONCERT tool for OCR correction >> - Computerlexica for 9 European languages and tools for lexicon >> building >> - A digitisation framework for demonstrating and evaluating tools and >> results >> - An invaluable dataset which can foster further research activities >> - The Functional Extension Parser capable of decoding layout elements >> of books >> - A postcorrection tool with text and error profiler >> - Novel Approaches to preprocessing and OCR for future development >> - The IMPACT Centre of Competence for digitisation >> >> *Registration and practical information* >> Attendance of this event is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to >> register in advance through *http://impactocr.eventbrite.com/*. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Lieke Ploeger. >> >> IMPACT Project Office | Sector Innovation & Development, Research >> department | +31 (0)70 314 0958 >> >> <http://www.kb.nl/> Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5 |2595 BE Den Haag >> Postbus 90407 |2509 LK Den Haag |(070) 314 09 11 |www.kb.nl English >> version <http://www.kb.nl/red/email.html> >> |Disclaimer<http://www.kb.nl/red/disclaimer.html> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cultural-partners mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/cultural-partners >> > > > _______________________________________________ > cultural-partners mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.ch/listinfo/cultural-partners >
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