Computer assisted transcription for ancient text images

  • Authors:
  • Verónica Romero;Alejandro H. Toselli;Luis Rodríguez;Enrique Vidal

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, València, Spain;Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, València, Spain;Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain;Instituto Tecnológico de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, València, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Paleography experts spend many hours transcribing ancient documents and state-of-the-art handwritten text recognition systems are not suitable for performing this task automatically. We propose here a new interactive, online framework which, rather than full automation, aims at assisting the experts in the proper recognition-transcription process; that is, facilitate and speed up the transcription of old documents. This framework combines the efficiency of automatic handwriting recognition systems with the accuracy of the experts, leading to a cost-effective perfect transcription of ancient manuscripts.