Improving Optical Character Recognition of Finnish Historical Newspapers with a Combination of Fraktur \& Antiqua Models and Image Preprocessing

no code implementations • WS 2017 • Mika Koistinen, Kimmo Kettunen, Tuula P{\"a}{\"a}kk{\"o}nen

Boundary Detection Information Retrieval +4

Measuring Lexical Quality of a Historical Finnish Newspaper Collection ― Analysis of Garbled OCR Data with Basic Language Technology Tools and Means

no code implementations • LREC 2016 • Kimmo Kettunen, Tuula P{\"a}{\"a}kk{\"o}nen

The National Library of Finland has digitized a large proportion of the historical newspapers published in Finland between 1771 and 1910 (Bremer-Laamanen 2001).

Information Retrieval Optical Character Recognition (OCR) +1