Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness

Measuring Mass Text Digitization Quality and Usefulness. Simon Tanner. D-Lib Magazine. July/August 2009.
This article discusses the accuracy of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) output in a way that is relevant to the needs of the end users of digital resources. It looks at the benefits to be gained from measuring not just character accuracy but also word and significant word accuracy.

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