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 Remě was thinking :-)

Aubrey



2012/6/7 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
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 <mathis.remi@gmail.com> 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.
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.

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