Large-Scale Digitisation and Recognition of Opportunities for Image Processing and Analysis Historical Documents: Challenges and Analysis

A. Antonacopoulos

Keynote presentation given at the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis 2010 (SSBA2010), Uppsala, Sweden, March 11-12, 2010

Abstract

This paper outlines the challenges and opportunities in large-scale analysis and recognition of scanned historical documents. After a brief overview of the background of large-scale digitisation and its overall challenges, the characteristics of the documents and the artefacts encountered are presented according to how they occur throughout the lifecycle of a document. The stages of full-text digitization are presented next, with an emphasis on the document image analysis pipeline. The paper ends with some pointers to past and current notable digitization research initiatives.

Citation

A. Antonacopoulos , "Large-Scale Digitisation and Recognition of Opportunities for Image Processing and Analysis Historical Documents: Challenges and Analysis", Keynote presentation given at the Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis 2010 (SSBA2010), Uppsala, Sweden, March 11-12, 2010

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