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Category: Software

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

New Testament Greek Manuscripts In Your Pocket: The NT Greek MSS iOS App
Apps, Biblical Studies, Digitization, Online Resources, Software

New Testament Greek Manuscripts In Your Pocket: The NT Greek MSS iOS App

The H. Milton Haggard Center for New Testament Textual Studies (CNTTS) is involved in several projects in the field of … Continue reading New Testament Greek Manuscripts In Your Pocket: The NT Greek MSS iOS App

How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project
African Languages, African Studies, DH in Practice, Software

How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project

(Part 1) For my first post here on African studies and the use of digital tools, I’ll talk about my … Continue reading How to build a community of collaborative transcription? Feed-back from an on-going project

<strong>Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations</strong>
Buddhist Studies, DH in Practice, HTR, Software, Tibetan Studies

Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations

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

Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER
Buddhist Studies, DH in Practice, HTR, Software, Tibetan Studies

Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER

Since joining the ERC-funded project, The Dawn of Tibetan Buddhist Scholasticism (11th-13th C.)(TibSchol),1 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in … Continue reading Transkribus in Practice: Improving CER

READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem
Buddhist Studies, DH in Practice, Digitization, Indian Studies, Online Resources, Software, Textual Analysis, Topics

READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem

The ‘Research Environment for Ancient Documents’ (or ‘READ‘) is an ecosystem of open-source tools and platforms for the creation of … Continue reading READ Workbench (Part 1): An Introduction to a Text and Image Annotation Ecosystem

<strong>Voxel Art in the Classroom</strong>
DH in Practice, Digitization, Online Resources, Ottoman Studies, Software, Teaching, Visualization

Voxel Art in the Classroom

For my first post exploring digital methods in the classroom, I will introduce Voxel Art and how I have utilized … Continue reading Voxel Art in the Classroom

Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (2/2)
Buddhist Studies, Japanese Studies, Online Resources, Sinology, Software, Textual Analysis, Uncategorized

Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (2/2)

This is the second part of our interview with Professor Kiyonori Nagasaki (twitter @knagasaki), Senior Fellow at the International Institute … Continue reading Digital Humanities and Buddhist Studies in Japan: An Interview with Kiyonori Nagasaki (2/2)

Writing from right-to-left in a left-to-right digital world
Islamic Languages, Software

Writing from right-to-left in a left-to-right digital world

For most beginners’ purposes, specialized DH tools (like Transkribus, Voyant Tools, or any specialized database) are already a major boost … Continue reading Writing from right-to-left in a left-to-right digital world

Practicing Reading Cursive Japanese with Miwo
Japanese Studies, OCR, Software, Teaching

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

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