A Complete Approach to the Conversion of Typewritten Historical Documents for Digital Archives

This paper presents a complete system that historians/archivists can use to digitize whole collections of documents relating to personal information. The system integrates tools and processes that facilitate scanning, image indexing, document (physical and logical) structure definition, document image analysis, recognition, proofreading/correction and semantic tagging. The system is described in the context of different types of typewritten documents relating to prisoners in World-War II concentration camps and is the result of a

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DAS
• Authors: Apostolos Antonacopoulos, Dimosthenis Karatzas
• Keywords: DAS 2004, Document Analysis, Document Image Analysis, Documents, II Concentration Camps