We describe a technique for transcript alignment in early printed books by using deep
models in combination with dynamic programming algorithms. Two object detection models …

The growth of digital libraries has yielded a large number of handwritten historical
documents in the form of images, often accompanied by a digital transcription of the content …

Seals are small coin-shaped artifacts, mostly made of lead, held with strings to seal letters.
This work presents the first attempt towards automatic reading of text on Byzantine seal …

Over the past few decades, the everexpanding media of the digital world, including digital
humanities endeavors, have become more reliant on the results of Optical Character …

We present an end-to-end system for aligning transcript letters to their coordinates in a
manuscript image. An intuitive GUI and an automatic line detection method enable the user …

Libraries contain a large number of digital images of handwritten documents of historical
and cultural interest, and digital transcriptions are also available for some of them. The …

The current state of the art for automatic transcription of historical manuscripts is typically
limited by the requirement of human-annotated learning samples, which are are necessary …

Most of the Dead Sea Scrolls have now been digitally transcribed and imaged to very high
standards. Our goal is to align the transcriptions with the text visible in the image, glyph by …

An ongoing considerable effort for digitizing historical manuscripts has produced images of
original manuscripts, some accompanied by transcripts. Aligning the text in the input image …

Written texts are both physical (signs, shapes and graphical systems) and abstract objects
(ideas), whose meanings and social connotations evolve through time. To study this dual …