A workshop was held at the University of Bath on 24th September 2009, looking at some of the current issues in using Optical Character Recognition for digitisation, organised in the context of the EU Impact project. Videos, slideshows, notes and questions from the day are now all available from the workshop webpages.
+ OCR Workshop (Video and Slides)
+ Digitisation Overview (Video and Slides)
+ Introduction to OCR (Video)
+ Document Image Analysis for Text Recognition (Slides)
+ Improving and adding value to OCR results – the IMPACT project (Slides)
+ Case Study – British Library/JISC Newspaper project (Video and Slides)
+ Case Study – Targeted Language Resources for the Digitisation of Historical Collections (Video and Slides)
+ Case Study – Using digitised text collections in research and learning (Slides)
+ Panel Session (Q&A, Text Available)
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