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LibraryOfCongress/ndnp-open-ocr

An open-source pipeline developed by the Library of Congress for reprocessing the OCR of National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) data. The application efficiently creates new ALTO XML and PDF files at scale, can be deployed locally or in common cloud environments, uses Tesseract Open-Source OCR engine and custom post-processing steps.

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--segmentation ALTO text blocks overlap for manual/human OCR correction. 25 days ago
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An open-source pipeline developed by the Library of Congress for reprocessing the OCR of National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) data. The application efficiently creates new ALTO XML and PDF files at scale, can be deployed locally or in common cloud environments, uses Tesseract Open-Source OCR engine and custom post-processing steps.

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