Learning to Read Bushman
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The Bleek and Lloyd Collection contains notebooks that document Bushman stories and culture and are available as digital scans [1]. Converting these images to text, through a process known as transcription, would allow for the text which appears in the notebooks to be searched, indexed and compared. However, automatic transcription of Bushman texts is difficult due to the diacritics that span multiple characters and appear above and below characters.
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