While historical newspapers recently have gained a lot of attention in the digital humanities, transforming them into machine-readable data by means of OCR poses some major challenges. In order
to address these challenges, we have developed an end-to-end OCR pipeline named Origami. This
pipeline is part of a current project on the digitization and quantitative analysis of the German
newspaper “Berliner Börsen-Zeitung” (BBZ), from 1872 to 1931. The Origami pipeline reuses existing open source OCR components and on top offers a new configurable architecture for layout
detection, a simple table recognition, a two-stage X-Y cut for reading order detection, and a new
robust implementation for document dewarping. In this paper we describe the different stages of the
workflow and discuss how they meet the above-mentioned challenges posed by historical newspapers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:92168 |
| Date | 20 June 2024 |
| Creators | Liebl, Bernhard, Burghardt, Manuel |
| Publisher | CEUR-WS.org |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:conferenceObject, info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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