Lotte Wilms present the various IMPACT improvements that have been incorporated in the new ABBYY Finereader 10 and the ABBYY …
OCR en toepassing bij de KB – Marian Hellema #impactdemo
Marian Hellema is involved with the large-scale newspaper digitisation project at the KB. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is needed for: …
IMPACT Beeldverbetering – Lotte Wilms #impactdemo
Lotte Wilms shows various ways to enhance an image with IMPACT tools after scanning to improve OCR results.
Kennisbank Digitalisering – Lotte Wilms #impactdemo
Various library partners in IMPACT (BnF, ONB, BL, KB, DNB, UGOE and BSB) are working together on the Decision Support Tools …
The Question & Answer Session
Better late than never, a short summary of the question and answer session. NOT a literal transcript. Unfortunately, Sven Schlarb …
Use of digitised and OCRed text collections by end users
Geneviève Cron of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BnF) begins by discussing the BNF’s digital library: Gallica. A million documents …
A gentle introduction to lexicon building and application
Katrien Depuydt of the Institute for Dutch Lexicology (INL) begins with the distinction between a lexicon and an electronic dictionary. …
The Functional Extension Parser – a rule-based system for flexible structural analysis
Lukas Gander of Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Tirol (University and Regional Library Tyrol) outlines the concept behind the Functional Extension Parser: …
Working in CONCERT – public participation in mass digitisation
Next on stage is Niall Anderson from the British Library, talking about public participation in mass digitisation, and “why we …
The challenges of historical materials and an overview on the technical solutions in IMPACT
Sven Schlarb of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) now talks about the challenges of text digitisation for OCR and …