OCR4all -- An Open-Source Tool Providing a (Semi-)Automatic OCR Workflow for Historical Printings

no code implementations • 9 Sep 2019 • Christian Reul, Dennis Christ, Alexander Hartelt, Nico Balbach, Maximilian Wehner, Uwe Springmann, Christoph Wick, Christine Grundig, Andreas Büttner, Frank Puppe

Nevertheless, in the last few years great progress has been made in the area of historical OCR, resulting in several powerful open-source tools for preprocessing, layout recognition and segmentation, character recognition and post-processing.

Optical Character Recognition Optical Character Recognition (OCR)