Experimenting with Training a Neural Network in Transkribus to Recognise Text in a Multilingual and Multi-Authored Manuscript Collection

This work aims at developing an optimal strategy to automatically transcribe a large quantity of uncategorised, digitised archival documents when resources include handwritten text by multiple authors and in several languages. We present a comparative study to establish the efficiency of a single mu...

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Main Authors: Carlotta Capurro, Vera Provatorova, Evangelos Kanoulas
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语言:English
出版: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
丛编:Heritage
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在线阅读:https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/6/12/392
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总结:This work aims at developing an optimal strategy to automatically transcribe a large quantity of uncategorised, digitised archival documents when resources include handwritten text by multiple authors and in several languages. We present a comparative study to establish the efficiency of a single multilingual handwritten text recognition (HTR) model trained on multiple handwriting styles instead of using a separate model for every language. When successful, this approach allows us to automate the transcription of the archive, reducing manual annotation efforts and facilitating information retrieval. To train the model, we used the material from the personal archive of the Dutch glass artist Sybren Valkema (1916–1996), processing it with Transkribus.
ISSN:2571-9408