Dear List,
I've received a query from a medievalist who is interested in applying OCR to manuscripts. I'm not really aware of recent work in this area and I'm wondering what, if anything, is being done at this time or in the recent past. Last time I looked into it good OCR from handwritten texts was a long way off - for nicely written, straight English text, to say nothing of heavily abbreviated medieval Latin or Old English writing. But I'd be delighted to be proven wrong.
Thanks! Dot
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