Unlocking Swedish historical material through OCR and HTR

Abstract

This chapter presents some of the efforts made by three national institutions and the challenges each institution encountered while advancing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technologies for Swedish historical material. It introduces the resources, models, and tools that can be used to refine computational approaches for improving OCR and HTR processing, which, in turn, could enhance text- and data-driven research.