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.
This overview is inspired by Maddalena Poli’s recent post, which (re-)introduces East Asian Studies resources featured in The DO. Since … Continue reading An Overview of Digital Tools and Resources for Central and South Asian Studies Reviewed by The DO Members
The field of Syriac Digital Humanities continues to advance rapidly, moving from basic text recognition (as discussed in my previous … Continue reading Syriac AI Manuscripts and Fragments: Reimagining Digitally the Damaged Past
Introduction The first article of this series explored recent advances in the digital study of Arabic script in France in … Continue reading At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France (2) : A Brief History of Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition in France
It has been almost a year since my last Editor’s Digest and in that time there have been a few … Continue reading Editor’s Digest March 2025: Central and South Asian Studies 1
As Dominique Stutzmann points out in an article for the renowned French media outlet L’Histoire in 2017, paleography has undergone … Continue reading At the Dawn of Digital Studies on Arabic Script in France
Learn about Kraken’s segmentation model and the process of training our own custom segmentation models for layout analysis tasks. Continue reading Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 2
How to train custom OCR/HTR models in Kraken Continue reading Train Your Own OCR/HTR Models with Kraken, part 1
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
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
The Digital Orientalist 