Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Getting Started: OCR Projects

Basic overview of several tools (both open source such as Tesseract and commercial such as Adobe Acrobat) that perform optical character recognition (OCR).

Historical and Multilingual OCR

Applications and OCR Projects:

A Research Agenda for Historical and Multilingual Optical Character Recognition (Northeastern)
Early Modern OCR Project (Texas A&M)
Reading the First Books Project (Texas A&M)
Transcribing Multilingual and Historical Documents - Workshop Materials (Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Texas A&M)

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