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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

Getting Started

Easy-to-Use Tools

There are a variety of free, easy-to-use tools to help you get started with OCR. The list below contains a brief list of such tools that can be used for simple OCR transcription.

Tutorials

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