Practical examples and theoretical reflections on the do's and don'ts of using digital tools for your study and research in African and Asian Studies.
The script used by the Christian cultures of Ethiopia is ancient, developing from the Sabaean script in the first centuries … Continue reading Current approaches on Automatic Recognition of Ethiopic script
How to train custom OCR/HTR models in Kraken Continue reading Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 1
In my previous post on how to use the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR), I walked through the process … Continue reading A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 2)
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
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
This is the third part of the interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 3
(Part 2) Although we initially thought that the Ethiopian community would find something to satisfy its curiosity, it was clear … Continue reading How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
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
This is the second part of an interview with Arezou Azad, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Faculty of Asian … Continue reading Interview with Arezou Azad on the Invisible East Programme and its Digitisation of Documents from the Medieval Islamicate East, part 2
In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model … Continue reading Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations