
Practicing Reading Cursive Japanese with Miwo
Most people involved in Japanese studies with access to a smartphone or tablet will be aware of the kuzushiji (cursive … Continue reading Practicing Reading Cursive Japanese with Miwo
Most people involved in Japanese studies with access to a smartphone or tablet will be aware of the kuzushiji (cursive … Continue reading Practicing Reading Cursive Japanese with Miwo
The first part of this post covered starting a project with eScriptorium and properly segmenting a page to prepare it … Continue reading Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 2
Exegetes interested in textual criticism need ready access to digitized and digitalized versions of Hebrew manuscripts so that they must … Continue reading Introduction to eScriptorium, HTR for Hebrew Manuscripts, part 1
Inspired by a workshop given by Dr. Alex Mallett (Waseda University) that I attended in May last year, I recently … Continue reading Transkribus and Kirishitanban: Some Initial Experiments
This is a contribution by Andrea Barucci, Constanza Cucci, Massimiliano Franci, Marco Loschiavo and Fabrizio Argenti. For their short bios, … Continue reading The multiple purposes of neural network for the recognition of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics complexity
This week we publish the second part of “A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic” … Continue reading A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 2
This week’s guest contribution is by Ishida Yuri, Okayama University, Special-Appointment Assistant Professor, and Shinoda Tomoaki, Tokyo University of Foreign … Continue reading A Study on the Accuracy of Low-cost User-friendly OCR Systems for Arabic: Part 1
During last spring I thought a lot about the topic for this post. I even felt a certain discouragement, which … Continue reading Automated Transcription of a Syriac Work’s Translated Text
Every humanities researcher dreams of finding keywords in archival documents quickly and easily. Thanks to OCR technology, we have realized … Continue reading Innovative Designs on Ottoman Turkish Search Engines: Wikilala and Muteferriqa
This is the sixth and final post of a series by the Digital Orientalist’s Syriac Studies Editor, Ephrem Ishac, based on … Continue reading Toward an Ecosystem of the Syriac Digital Humanities: An Interview with George A. Kiraz, 5th and Final Part