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 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.p... *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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On 2012-06-07 13:37, Andrea Zanni wrote:
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 :-)
It's great if Gerard can visit the meeting. I don't agree that the normal, commercial version of Finereader costs "a lot". If it did, free OCR software would have a fair chance, but Finereader is actually affordable, € 130 for a single person license. Most digital cameras cost more than that.
What IMPACT is doing, however, is to improve Finereader for blackletter/Fraktur, an area where both the standard Finereader and free OCR software do a poor job.
Wikisource can indeed offer the strength of manual, volunteer proofreaders in many different languages.
2012/6/7 Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se
On 2012-06-07 13:37, Andrea Zanni wrote:
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 :-)
It's great if Gerard can visit the meeting. I don't agree that the normal, commercial version of Finereader costs "a lot". If it did, free OCR software would have a fair chance, but Finereader is actually affordable, € 130 for a single person license. Most digital cameras cost more than that.
yes, you're quite right, but for "enterprise" version FR costs a lot more: I remember I contacted them some months ago for Wikisource (to replace our OCR engine) but due to lack of interest (of the community, and then mine) and other issues I did not proceed with the discussion. i still have the contact of the European salesman, though.
Aubrey
Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
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