Encoded (or ciphered) manuscripts are a special type of historical documents that contain
encrypted text. The automatic recognition of this kind of documents is challenging because …

As revolutionary technology, scanning technology-like OCR-knows an attracting increasing
interest in the medical system. In fact, scanning technology, driven by big data and machine …

In this paper, we consider how to incorporate psychophysical measurements of human
visual perception into the loss function of a deep neural network being trained for a …

In 2016, the OCRopy tool (Breuel 2014)–designed as an open-source, easily trainable OCR
engine–piqued the interest of digital humanists in deploying its application to manuscripts …

Abbreviations have been an important qualitative means for dating and localising
manuscripts. In digital scholarship, however, they have received less attention. Reasons for …

Abbreviations were an integral part of the writing systems used in the Middle Ages. They
were used both to conserve precious writing materials and to alleviate “the labour of writing …

The objective of the present paper is to introduce to a wider audience, at a very early stage
of development, the initial results of a Romanian joint initiative of AI software engineers and …

Avant de commencer mon propos, je désire remercier non seulement les organisateurs de
leur invitation, mais aussi plusieurs personnes sans qui elle aurait été impossible: Vincent …