Service: Transcription of texts of articles by using optical character recognition

Responsible organisation: Luxembourg National Library (Central-Government)

The aim of the project proposed by the Luxembourg National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg - BnL) is to improve the transcription of the texts of articles by using optical character recognition (OCR). This enhancement was a prerequisite for the automated identification of "named entities" (people, places, organisations, and dates). These entities, detected using AI techniques, form the basis for a new interactive application that allows dynamic exploration of articles, thereby improving access to the archive of digitalised newspapers and journals.

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://gouvernement.lu/en/dossiers.gouv_digitalisation%2Ben%2Bdossiers%2B2021%2BAI4Gov.html
Start/end date 2019 -
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