Word spotting for historical documents
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
Text search for medieval manuscript images
Pattern Recognition
Handwritten document retrieval strategies
Proceedings of The Third Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data
Virtual manuscripts for an enhanced museum and web experience ‘living manuscripts’
VSMM'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Interactive Technologies and Sociotechnical Systems
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In this paper, we describe DocExplore, an integrated software suite centered on the handling of digitized documents with an emphasis on ancient manuscripts. This software suite allows the augmentation and exploration of ancient documents of cultural interest. Specialists can add textual and multimedia data and metadata to digitized documents through a graphical interface that does not require technical knowledge. They are helped in this endeavor by sophisticated document analysis tools that allows for instance to spot words or patterns in images of documents. The suite is intended to ease considerably the process of bringing locked away historical materials to the attention of the general public by covering all the steps from managing a digital collection to creating interactive presentations suited for cultural exhibitions. Its genesis and sustained development reside in a collaboration of archivists, historians and computer scientists, the latter being not only in charge of the development of the software, but also of creating and incorporating novel pattern recognition for document analysis techniques.