The IMPACT Framework – From Tools to Workflows

This practical session started with the attendees introducing themselves and splitting up into 3 groups, so that each could work …

IMPACT Final Conference – IBM Adaptive OCR Engine and CONCERT Cooperative Correction

Asaf Tzadok (IBM Haifa Research Lab) showed us IBM’s CONCERT tool which facilitates collaborative OCR correction. CONCERT (Cooperative Engine for …

The first part of the OCR workshop in Munich concluded with perspectives of the project IMPACT. The second and more practical orientated …

Doris Škarić from the Bavarian State Library reported about collaborative correction of OCR results by volunteers. She presented the IMPACT …

Günter Mühlberger from the University and Regional Library of Tyrol in Innsbruck presented the Functional Extension Parser (FEP), a tool …

In his second talk of the day, Gerd Zechmeister of the Austrian National Library spoke about Optical Character Recognition (OCR), …

Jesse De Does from INL follows Katrien by introducing a post-processing Text and Error Profiling tool that looks similar to …

Neil Fitzgerald gave a clear overview of the materials that will be provided by the IMPACT project through the new …

IMPACT work with ABBYY IMPACT has been working with both ABBYY and IBM on OCR and Clemens starts with outlining …

Niall took us through an overview of why Image Enhancement was necessary for OCR use and what the current state …