[NEDBIB-L] 26 June 2012 - IMPACT event: Project Outcomes

IMPACT event: Project Outcomes
Tuesday 26 June 2012, KB National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague

We would like to invite you to attend the IMPACT event "Project
Outcomes" on 26 June 2012, which will take place at the KB National
Library of the Netherlands in The Hague. At this event, the IMPACT
project outcomes will be presented by IMPACT staff, along with results
of several pilots that have been conducted with some of the tools at
IMPACT libraries in early 2012.

IMPACT outcomes
The IMPACT project (January 2008 - June 2012) is a European research
project focused on innovating OCR software and language technology to
improve the digitisation of historical printed text. IMPACT is led by
the KB National Library of the Netherlands. Our group of partners
includes several major European national libraries, universities,
research centres and two private sector companies (ABBYY and IBM Haifa).
IMPACT recently launched the IMPACT Centre of Competence
(www.digitisation.eu <blocked::http://www.digitisation.eu/> ), a
productive network of experts in digitisation that will build on the
research and development of partners from the IMPACT project and
continue to improve access to text.

At the end of the project in June 2012, IMPACT is presenting the
following results:

* The improved commercial OCR engine ABBYY FineReader 10
(the IMPACT FineReader)
* IBM's Adaptive OCR engine with the CONCERT tool for OCR
correction
* Computerlexica for 9 European languages and tools for
lexicon building
* A digitisation framework for demonstrating and
evaluating tools and results
* An invaluable dataset which can foster further research
activities
* The Functional Extension Parser capable of decoding
layout elements of books
* A postcorrection tool with text and error profiler
* Novel Approaches to preprocessing and OCR for future
development
* The IMPACT Centre of Competence for digitisation

Registration and practical information
Attendance of this event is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to
register in advance through http://impactocr.eventbrite.com/
<blocked::http://impactocr.eventbrite.com/> . The programme will be made
available through this page in the near future.

Kind regards,

Lieke Ploeger.


Project leader European Projects | Sector Innovation & Development,
Research department | +31 (0)70 314 0958



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