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Tag: Digital Tools

Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)
DH in Practice, New Post, OCR, South Asian Studies, Workflow

Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)

As a Digital Humanities student working with Hindi-language texts, I expected extracting text from a Hindi PDF to be a … Continue reading Why Extracting Hindi Text from PDFs Is So Much Harder Than English (And How You Can Do It)

The Future of Researching Sartorial Japonisme: Using Digital Archives and Other Helpful Tools
Japanese Studies, Online Resources

The Future of Researching Sartorial Japonisme: Using Digital Archives and Other Helpful Tools

This is a post by contributing writer, Emma Donington-Kiey, an independent researcher and MA graduate of Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies from … Continue reading The Future of Researching Sartorial Japonisme: Using Digital Archives and Other Helpful Tools

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

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