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Author: Rohan Chauhan

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3
DH in Practice, Digitization, HTR, Indian Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Software, South Asian Studies, Workflow

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3

OCR of historical printing in Bengali using segmentation and recognition models trained in Kraken from an annotated dataset of Bengali texts published between 1860 and 1940. Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 3

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2
DH in Practice, Digitization, HTR, Indian Studies, Islamic Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Software, South Asian Studies, Workflow

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2

In part 1 of this series, I provided a quick introduction to eScriptorium and the workflow associated with it. This … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 2

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1
DH in Practice, Digitization, HTR, Indian Studies, OCR, Online Resources, Software, South Asian Studies, Workflow

eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1

State-of-the-art OCR engines use trainable models to perform two consecutive tasks that produce machine-actionable transcriptions. They first segment the position … Continue reading eScriptorium: Digital Text Production for Urdu, Hindi, and Bengali Print, part 1

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