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The Augmenting OCR Working Group, the iDigBio IT staff and invited guests meet October 1 - 2, 2012 in Gainesville, Florida for a 2 day intensive workshop to plan a hackathon and concurrent workshop, put together iDigBio Wiki content from collective knowledge about OCR in digitization workflows, and learn about the latest developments in OCR and NLP from all invited participants. | The Augmenting OCR Working Group, the iDigBio IT staff and invited guests meet October 1 - 2, 2012 in Gainesville, Florida for a 2 day intensive workshop to plan a hackathon and concurrent workshop, put together iDigBio Wiki content from collective knowledge about OCR in digitization workflows, and learn about the latest developments in OCR and NLP from all invited participants. | ||
Karl-Heinz Steinke from Hannover, Germany and the [http://www.hs-hannover.de/forschung/forschungsschwerpunkte/herbar-digital/index.html Herbar Digital] project is our key speaker. Karl-Heinz' group has been working for the last 5 years on improving OCR algorithms for recognizing handwriting and on OCR algorithms in general as part of making digitization of herbarium specimens more efficient. See [http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/298 Feature recognition for herbarium specimens (Herbar-Digital)] | Karl-Heinz Steinke from Hannover, Germany and the [http://www.hs-hannover.de/forschung/forschungsschwerpunkte/herbar-digital/index.html Herbar Digital] project is our key speaker. Karl-Heinz' group has been working for the last 5 years on improving OCR algorithms for recognizing handwriting and on OCR algorithms in general as part of making digitization of herbarium specimens more efficient. See [http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/article/view/298 Feature recognition for herbarium specimens (Herbar-Digital)] and [http://www.fakultaet2.fh-hannover.de/organisation/labore/fertigungsautomatisierung-digitale-fabrik/forschung-entwicklung/herbar-digital/herbar%20digital%202012 Herbar Digital 2012] for the latest about this project's work. | ||
A Hackathon for February 2013 is on our list. We're set up to head for the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) in February of 2013 to make strides in just what OCR, ML and NLP can do to make our digitization efforts more efficient in producing data faster and producing data that's fit-for-use. We'll be choosing our hackathon focus and designing the hackathon together with the iDigBio IT Staff at the upcoming October workshop. | A Hackathon for February 2013 is on our list. We're set up to head for the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) in February of 2013 to make strides in just what OCR, ML and NLP can do to make our digitization efforts more efficient in producing data faster and producing data that's fit-for-use. We'll be choosing our hackathon focus and designing the hackathon together with the iDigBio IT Staff at the upcoming October workshop. | ||