I’ve got a couple of faculty members who are doing research that involves old newspapers and magazines. The captures are of varied complexity and quality. Some of them are from the nwespaper.com site, some are phone photographs. I hear that Acrobat’s OCR function does a good job with normal scans of documents. I did a […]
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OCR and HTR: Getting handwritten text transcribed
We had a request from a faculty member for the purchase of Transcribus to transcribe older handwritten Spanish and French source material. We’d done some experimenting with transcribing text using various generic AI tools previously. As a result, I decided to take an example page in French and test it across a bunch of tools. […]
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Trust, details, human nature and AI responses
I’m building little chatbots for a German class at Middlebury. It’s a pretty solid example of a number of complications. They work (technically) and I didn’t use AI to do the programming but there are some other pieces that pop up that I think are worth documenting. Goal The goal is to have the chatbot […]
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