ABBYY FineReader and Transkribus as philological tools: digitizing multilingual and dialphabetic ancient medical dictionaries (16th–18th centuries)

Anaïs CHAMBAT (1) , Cahal TAAFFE

1 LT2D - Lexiques, Textes, Discours, Dictionnaire - Centre Jean Pruvost

We propose in this article a critical comparison of two approaches in handling medical dictionaries digitalization, a specialized and an industrial one. Both methods were applied on similar corpora but required different approaches. We examine the advantages and disadvantages of using ABBYY FineReader and Transkribus as well as the methods by which researchers and engineer can better apply them, to older printed work.

Keywords: OCR; Medical dictionaries; ABBYY Finereader; Transkribus

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Document and Text Processing

Anaïs CHAMBAT, Cahal TAAFFE. ABBYY FineReader and Transkribus as philological tools: digitizing multilingual and dialphabetic ancient medical dictionaries (16th–18th centuries). 2022. ⟨hal-03852198⟩