Flexible Computer Assisted Transcription of Historical Documents Through Subword Spotting
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In the absence of accurate handwriting recognition for historical documents, computer assisted transcription (CAT) methods move into the spotlight. We explore some of the weaknesses of current CAT systems and propose a CAT system which relies on subword spotting that overcomes most of these. The system is ideal crowdsourcing transcription to mobile users.
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