Combining OCR Models for Reading Early Modern Printed Books

1 code implementation • 11 May 2023 • Mathias Seuret, Janne van der Loop, Nikolaus Weichselbaumer, Martin Mayr, Janina Molnar, Tatjana Hass, Florian Kordon, Anguelos Nicolau, Vincent Christlein

Moreover, we developed a system using local font group recognition in order to combine the output of multiple font recognition models, and show that while slower, this approach performs better not only on text lines composed of multiple fonts but on the ones containing a single font only as well.

Font Recognition Optical Character Recognition (OCR)