NVIDIA Blog – 1.28.19 (1.24.19)
Deep learning researchers are hitting the books.
By building AI tools to transcribe historical texts in antiquated scripts letter by letter, they’re creating an invaluable resource for researchers who study centuries-old documents.
Many old documents have been digitized as scans or photographs of physical pages. But while obsolete scripts like Greek miniscule or German Fraktur may be readable by experts, the text on these scanned pages is neither legible to a broad audience nor searchable by computers.