Dear all,
Speaking of digitising historic texts, list members might be mildly
entertained by this item in my blog. It concerns f and s in Google Books.
http://chronographics.blogspot.com/2010/12/words-over-time.html
Stephen
On 10/08/2011 10:23, "Ed I Bremner" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> MCG members interested in the cutting edge of OCR and the digitisation of
> historic text (including magazines), may well want to consider coming to the
> IMPACT Conference at the British Library on the 24-25th of October 2011.
>
> This event will showcase the results from the IMPACT project and launch the
> IMPACT Centre of Competence.
>
> IMPACT is a European project that has been developing new tools to improve
> the mass digitisation and OCR of historic text -
> See: http://www.impact-project.eu/
>
> Details of the conference are below, with a full programme at:
> http://www.impact-project.eu/news/ic2011/conference-programme/
>
>
>
> *********************************************************
>
> With this email we would like to invite you to the final conference of the
> IMPACT project, ³Digitisation & OCR: Better, faster, cheaper. Solutions of
> the IMPACT Centre of Competence and future challenges² that will take place
> on 24-25 October 2011 at the British Library in London. At this conference
> IMPACT will present the final project results, along with related research
> in the field of OCR and language technology.
>
> This event will also mark the official launch of the IMPACT Centre of
> Competence. This Centre is focused on making digitisation of historical
> printed text in Europe better, faster, cheaper by sharing expertise and
> providing access to tools for all parts of the digitisation workflow, as
> well as tools, services and facilities for further advancement of the State
> of the Art in this field.
>
> The programme for the conference is now online on the conference webpage,
> highlights include:
>
> € Khalil Rouhana (European Commission - Director for digital content
> and cognitive systems in DG Information Society and Media): ³The EC Digital
> Agenda and official launch of the IMPACT Centre of Competence²
> € Michael Fuchs (ABBYY Europe): ³ABBYY FineReader: IMPACT
> improvements²
> € Paul Fogel (California Digital Library): ³Experiences in mass
> digitisation: examining OCR quality²
> € Clemens Neudecker (National library of the Netherlands): ³The IMPACT
> Framework and what you can do with it²
> € Asaf Tzadok (IBM Haifa Research Lab): ³IBM Adaptive OCR engine and
> CONCERT Cooperative Correction²
> € Majlis Bremer-Laamanen (National Library of Finland): ³Crowdsourcing
> for OCR correction: Experiences with Digitalkoot²
> € Katrien Depuydt (INL ) and Klaus Schulz (University of Munich):
> ³Language work in IMPACT²
> € Stephen Krauwer (CLARIN coordinator, University of Utrecht):
> ³Related language work in CLARIN²
> € Parallel sessions on State of the art research tools for document
> analysis and OCR, IMPACT language tools & resources and Digitisation tips
> (Meet the expert).
>
> More programme updates will be announced through
> http://www.impact-project.eu/news/ic2011/conference-programme/ and Twitter
> (hashtag: #impactconf2011). Registration is now possible at the regular fee
> of 120 GBP. To register, please go to this BL ticket website and click
> October. More information is also available from the attached flyer.
>
>
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>
> Best Wishes
>
> Ed Bremner - IMPACT Project
> UKOLN
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> SKYPE: ed.bremner
>
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> Ed I Bremner
> Consultant and Trainer in Digital Media
> BremWeb Imaging
> www.bremweb.co.uk
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Adam
> Waterton
> Sent: 10 August 2011 09:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Software for digitising magazines
>
> Hi Trevor,
> We recently undertook a project to digitise and create machine readable
> versions of a series of Royal Academy of Arts exhibition catalogues
> (1870-1913). We tried a few OCR packages and also found that Abbyy
> Finereader http://finereader.abbyy.com/ gave good results. However, the
> resulting text files were still very inaccurate and required an enormous
> amount of manual tidying up to make them accurate enough for consistent
> searching. Also, Abbyy is not cheap and the costs will mount up if you need
> a separate Abbyy licence for each of your volunteers.
>
> The results of our digitisation project can be seen here:
> http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=temp
> lates/pages/exhibition_list.html
>
> Regards,
> Adam.
>
> Adam Waterton
> Head of Library Services
> Royal Academy of Arts
> Burlington House
> Piccadilly
> London
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>
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> The Royal Academy of Arts Collection Online: www.racollection.org.uk
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Howell, Alan
> Sent: 09 August 2011 10:09
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Software for digitising magazines
>
> Hi Trevor
>
> I have used Abbey Finereader for some projects at home and found it to be
> very effective at this sort of thing.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Alan Howell
> Guernsey Museums & Galleries
> SSDDI +44 (0) 1481 709736
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> REYNOLDS, Trevor
> Sent: 06 August 2011 09:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Software for digitising magazines
>
> Dear all
>
> A volunteer run charity I'm involved with wants to digitise the back issues
> of its periodicals.
>
> What they want to end up with is PDF/A format documents with a scanned image
> of each page with searchable text underneath the image. Many of the early
> issues have poor quality text and any OCRed text will probably need heavy
> editing.
>
> Can you recommend software which will enable this to be done? They are
> intending to split the work between a number of volunteers who will be
> working at home on their own computers so low cost, easy to use solutions
> would be welcome!
>
> Trevor Reynolds
> Collections Registrar, English Heritage
> 37 Tanner Row, York, YO1 6WP tel: 01904 601905
>
> Portico: your gateway to information on sites in the National Heritage
> Collection; have a look and tell us what you think.
> http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/archives-and-collections/por
> tico/
>
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