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What examples are there of digitization projects using OMR?
Optical Music Recognition is a like OCR but for recognizing musical notation. Are there any libraries using this as part of digitization projects? It strikes me that this could provide incredibly ...
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What is the smallest average percentage of errors that you can achieve with today's OCRs (after book scanning) processes and software?
I have heard that an error rate of 5-10% in OCR is still a good average. Any experiences or facts regarding this?
I am writing "average" as of course the quality of the source makes a big difference.
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What's the current state of the art for OCR for handwriting, especially for historical documents?
Just a few years ago, it seemed handwriting recognition for historic documents was way out of reach. I've seen various news and informal reports recently that suggest to me that great strides have ...
