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Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Python
OCR
text extraction
image processing
A hands-on introduction to OCR for digital humanities, covering traditional OCR, transformer-based tools, preprocessing, evaluation, and real-world case studies with historical documents.
Author

Alex Ronczewski

Published

6 April 2026

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