The eMOP project led by Texas A&M will use page images from ProQuest’s Early English Books Online and Early European Books, Gale Cengage’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and other sources to create a database of early typefaces used in English books and documents, and then train optical character recognition (OCR) software to read these documents.
Next Gen OCR Project Reaches Back into Early English History (and Databases)
By Matt Enis on November 26, 2012
Filed Under: Cataloging and Metadata, Digital Libraries, Digitization, Discovery, Featured, Preservation Tagged With: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Cushing Memorial Library, Early English Books Online, Early European Books, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, eMOP, Gale Cengage, LJ, OCR, ProQuest, Texas A&M