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Introduction to Optical Character Recognition Workshop

This guide was created to support the Introduction to Optical Character Recognition DH workshop in Spring 2024: This workshop introduces the basics of optical character recognition (OCR), which allows for full-text searching and other types of text man

Mid-level: In-browser OCR & PERO

In-Browser OCR

In-Browser OCR was developed by UT Libraries' European Studies Librarian Ian Goodale. It's an easy way to perform OCR and on multiple documents (in multiple languages).

PERO OCR

PERO OCR is a a cooperative development by Brno University of Technology and the Moravian Library, funded by the Czech Ministry of Culture. It is built to best work with German (printed/handwritten), Czech (printed/handwritten), and handwritten Arabic, but it can also have success with other languages.

All users need to make a free account in order to use the tool.

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