Projektnummer

0061036

Zusammenfassung

Historical manuscripts are an essential source for all humanities. Traditional philology and other text-centered humanities have developed a received methodology of accessing old manuscripts, which involves research on the text-external context, close reading, transcription, critical edition and much time-consuming textological "detective work". While direct support by computer science and engineering through reliable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools for handwriting is technically still out of the question, modern image and pattern recognition techniques promise being able to ...