Service: Amsterdam City Archive - Handwritten Text Recognition for eabling searches on old handwritten texts

Responsible organisation: Aincient B.V., Picturae, Sioux Technologies, Islands of Meaning, Amsterdam City Archive. (Private sector)

By means of Handwritten Text Recoginition (HTR), millions of scans of old handwritten texts from the Amsterdam City Archive can be automatically converted into transcriptions. This makes searching in complete texts possible. NLP is used.

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://nlaic.com/use-cases/aincient-en-partners-slimmer-doorzoeken-van-archieven-door-de-inzet-van-ai-en-crowdsourcing/
Start/end date 2021 -
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