IMPACT Conference: OCR in Mass Digitisation - Challenges between Full Text, Imaging and Language
6 April 2009 - 7 April 2009
Austria
This conference will focus on exchanging views with other researchers and suppliers in the OCR field, as well as presenting some preliminary results from the first year of the IMPACT project.
Tentative programme
• Monday 6 April 2009: New advances in OCR technology, such as collaborative correction and adaptive OCR techniques, a possible way forward for future large-scale digitisation programmes.
• Tuesday 7 April 2009: Current and future challenges facing OCR technology, such as image enhancement and linguistic issues that come up when digitising historical text material.
Both days will feature key speakers from outside of the project, in addition to experts from the IMPACT consortium (to be announced in the near future).
Practical information
The venue will be the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB –National Library of the Netherlands) in The Hague. There is a maximum of 150 participants.
Registration is now possible at an early bird fee of € 95. After 1 January 2009, the regular fee will be € 110. This fee includes coffee breaks, lunches and a conference dinner on Monday 6 April.For more information please visit http://www.impact-project.eu/about-the-project/news/ic2009/(opens in new window)
Tentative programme
• Monday 6 April 2009: New advances in OCR technology, such as collaborative correction and adaptive OCR techniques, a possible way forward for future large-scale digitisation programmes.
• Tuesday 7 April 2009: Current and future challenges facing OCR technology, such as image enhancement and linguistic issues that come up when digitising historical text material.
Both days will feature key speakers from outside of the project, in addition to experts from the IMPACT consortium (to be announced in the near future).
Practical information
The venue will be the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB –National Library of the Netherlands) in The Hague. There is a maximum of 150 participants.
Registration is now possible at an early bird fee of € 95. After 1 January 2009, the regular fee will be € 110. This fee includes coffee breaks, lunches and a conference dinner on Monday 6 April.For more information please visit http://www.impact-project.eu/about-the-project/news/ic2009/(opens in new window)
Keywords
OCR technology, Digital libraries