Releases: Divergent-Discourses/dd_preprocess
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dd_preprocess v1.0.0
Preprocesses images of written documents to prepare them for optical character recognition (OCR) or handwritten text recognition (HTR). Aims to obtain more accurate transcriptions by making text more machine-readable.
Originally written for OCR/HTR of historical documents, predominantly Tibetan-language newspaper pages from 1950-60s.
Prepares images to meet current Transkribus upload requirements then preprocesses them to enhance legibility.
Includes the option to only prepare images to meet current Transkribus upload requirements.
dd_preprocess is maintained by the Divergent Discourses project (led by Robbie Barnett at SOAS and by Franz Xaver Erhard at Leipzig University. Christina Sabbagh developed dd_preprocess for the project.
Full Changelog: https://github.com/Divergent-Discourses/dd_preprocess/commits/v1.0.0