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

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

The programme of this event is now available through
http://www.digitisation.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/IMPACT_Program_26June20
12.pdf.

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), 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

Attendance of this event is free of charge, but we kindly ask you to
register in advance through http://impactocr.eventbrite.com/

Kind regards,

Lieke Ploeger.

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

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