Antonia Karaisl
2023
A Question of Confidence: Using OCR Technology for Script analysis
Antonia Karaisl
Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
Antonia Karaisl
Proceedings of the Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
The following article proposes a method employing the Tesseract OCR engine to aid palaeographic analysis and scribal identification. Repurposing the so-called confidence score provided by the OCR engine, different methods of visualization are used to surface differences between font families, script types and manuscript hands.