Image to Text: Exploring Text Extraction Processes in L&UC TAGS: CHDS | digital library | Internship | OCR | Optical Character Recognition Since April I have been an intern with the University of Edinburgh’s Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service (CHDS) and the Centre for Data, Culture and Society (CDCS), looking into text extraction …Continue reading →

Introducing Whiiif – Full text searching across image-based collections TAGS: API | collections | Development | digital scholarship | IIIF | images | library labs | OCR | open source | technology | whiiif Background For historical collections digitisation projects inside the library, we are increasingly looking to provide OCR transcriptions of the documents alongside the digital images. In many cases, this can enhance …Continue reading →

Automated item data extraction from old documents TAGS: automation | collections | image processing | library labs | OCR | Scottish Session Papers | technology Overview The Problem We have a collection of historic papers from the Scottish Court of Session. These are collected into cases and bound together in large volumes, with no catalogue …Continue reading →