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Excited to report on some work I did with @sims-mss.bsky.social & some tough-to-read but very rewarding historical sources. Come hear me talk about transcription tools now at our disposal, & what is required to use them (hint: it's not computer fairy dust...) www.library.upenn.edu/events/schoe...
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Using Handwritten Text Recognition for Rich and Abundant Historical Source Collections: The Case of Medieval Italian Financial Records
Laural Morreale (Independent Scholar) will describe how to train Handwritten Text Recognition models to read difficult sources like the Italian financial records and will outline the costs, potential ...
