I’m in the middle of my middle ages module in uni and the professors are beginning to talk about letters from the pope and Karl the great. Should I be worried?
TIL (Trauma I Learned)
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JayObey711@lemmy.world 1 week ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 week ago
No, be grateful for the grad student who already did the heavy lifting for you.
ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 week ago
I'm writing a book. I have nearly 500 old newspaper sources of wildly varying quality and formats, as well as journal entries and the like. You'd think it'd be as simple as OCR, but OOOOHHHH NOOOO! I'm so happy someone understands my nightmare.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 week ago
ivanafterall@kbin.social 1 week ago
Curious whether you had luck with any of these? I found Transcribus awhile back and heard angels singing. It seemed so perfect. But I didn't have much better luck than with OCR options out of the box and custom training a model seems like nearly as much work as just transcribing, and I'm skeptical the result wouldn't be flawed and require a lot of manual fixes.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Some old texts would probably have been OCRable when they were new, but t̷h̵e̴ y̴̿ͅe̶͙̾̔ȃ̸͙̝͌r̷͔̈́s̷͉͙̈ r̵͉̣͔͈̘̈́̽̈́̀u̶̧̧͓̼̹̞͉͎͆̇͊̍̀̄i̶͉͎̟̘̙͈̊̀̈́̈͗̆̅n̴̨̗̰̮̫̐ͅ m̵̧̡̨̫͉̥͓͚͑͊͌̈́͜a̴͎͚̠͚͓͈͛̈́̇̍́̚͝ṉ̶̛͍̻͖̬̿̔̓͜y̵͖͙̮̘̮̞̑̓̀̉̚ ̷̨̢̝̣̰͇͌t̶̖͙͂̇̈̌͆̈́̀̈́̓h̵̦̜͍̲̽͐̔̆̅̓͌i̷̡̮͍͈̎̐̿̉n̶̩̺͎̹͋͒̇̒̍̌̉͝g̸͔̓̒s̴̢̖̯̞̗͇̳̦̀͆̔̈́͑͌̕͝
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Still better than the Jared Leto attempt to merge with the Joker.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Maps dude. Old maps are gonna kill me.