Notes and handouts from an informal presentation at the John Carter Brown Library.

Early modern printed books pose particular challenges for automatic transcription: uneven inking, irregular orthographies, radically multilingual texts. As a result, modern efforts to transcribe these documents tend to produce the textual gibberish commonly known as “dirty OCR” (Optical Character Recognition). This noisy output is most frequently…[Read more]

On the scholarly editing of historical documents as digital objects.