—For historical documents, available transcriptions typically are inaccurate when compared with the scanned document images. Not only the position of the words and sentences are ...
With the new interest in historical documents insight grew that electronic access to these texts causes many specific problems. In the first part of the paper we survey the presen...
Andreas Hauser, Markus Heller, Elisabeth Leiss, Kl...
There is a growing need to access historical Ottoman documents stored in large archives and therefore managing tools for automatic searching, indexing and transcription of these d...
We describe our work on text-image alignment in context of building a historical document retrieval system. We aim at aligning images of words in handwritten lines with their text...
In this paper we propose a new strategy for combining the outputs of several alignment systems. Based on the word boundaries retrieved from a number of individual alignment system...