Tag: ocr

4 posts
Dispatch: Humanistic AI, OCR, and Hugging Face

Dispatch: Humanistic AI, OCR, and Hugging Face

In which I reflect on the a recent trip to Chicago, overview the state of OCR for humanities data, and fangirl over Hugging Face infrastructure.

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Field Notes
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Jun 17, 2026

When machines read texts

Created by Jan Odstrcilik, 16th December 2025 Lecture at UniWien

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DH explorations
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Dec 16, 2025

Scanning And Sorting

How the banking industry, with an assist from tech, turned an incredibly frustrating, manual process—sorting checks—into an excellent example of automation.

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Feb 17, 2021

Seek And Spell

Teaching computers to read was one of the 20th century's great challenges. At first, the secret to optical character recognition was purpose-built type.

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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
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Mar 22, 2017