Spotting Words in Medieval Manuscripts
Fredrik Wahlberg|Mats Dahllöf|Lasse Mårtensson|Anders Brun
This article discusses the technology of handwritten text recognition (HTR) as a tool for analysis historical documents. We give broad overview this field research, but focus is on use method called ‘word spotting’ finding words directly and automatically in scanned images manuscript pages. illustrate evaluate by applying it to medieval manuscript. Word spotting uses digital image represent stretches writing sequences numerical features. These are intended capture linguistically significant aspects visual shape writing. Two potential can then be compared mathematically their degree similarity assigned value. Our version gives false positive rate about 30%, when true close 100%, an application where we search very frequent short 16th-Century Old Swedish cursiva recentior would e.g. researchers who want explore content manuscripts editions or other transcriptions unavailable.
Studia Neophilologica