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Transforming Humanities Texts into Data: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Starters Online
This workshop is intended for researchers who are looking to perform analysis on literary or historical texts in print format, but first needs to create a computer-readable version of that text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This class will demonstrate for participants the essentials on how to do this, with hands-on exercises using free, open-source software (Tesseract). It is ideal for beginners, particularly those interested in the Digital Humanities. Among the topics covered will be photographic capture for OCR, selection of best OCR software for a variety of applications, how to use OCR software, and special topics like non-English languages. Participants will need a laptop with access to a basic browser to participate in the hands-on portion.
- Date:
- Monday, October 3, 2022
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Libraries:
- Remote
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
- Audience:
- Faculty, PostDocs, Researchers, Grad Students