New 17th-Century Swedish-Recognizing HTR Model Published
Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is an AI-based technology that allows historical handwritten sources to be converted into machine-readable and digital format. This technology is fairly new, with most development occurring during the EU-funded READ (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents) project from 2016 to 2019. Unlike Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for printed text, HTR requires …