Recent Developments in OCR for Digital Libraries

Thursday 31st, March 2011
LITIS – Université de Rouen, Campus du Madrillet

tte journée fera le bilan des développements récents ou en cours dans le domaine des systèmes de reconnaissance optique de caractères (OCR), réalisés dans le cadre de différents projets de numérisation de documents pour les bibliothèques numériques. Le programme s’articule autour de plusieurs contributions émanant du projet européen IMPACT (IMProving ACcess to Text) et du projet ANR NAVIDOMAS. Le programme de la journée s’adresse aussi bien aux professionnels des bibliothèques, des archives, qu’à toute personne (industriels, chercheur, étudiant) impliqués dans le développement de logiciels de numérisation de documents anciens.

This one day workshop will disseminate the latest progress achieved in the field of Optical Character Recognition systems (OCR) within the framework of various digitization projects for Digital Libraries. The program is build with the contributions from the EU funded project IMPACT (Improving ACcess to Text), the French ANR Funded project NAVIDOMASS. The program will be attractiv for end user from libraries, archives services and researchers in the field of Digital Humanities, as well as researchers and industrial practionners involved in the developments of digitisationsoftwares and tools to deal with old documents.

Organizers : Geneviève Cron BnF - Thierry Paquet LITIS

Contact and Registration : Thierry.Paquet@univ-rouen.fr

Preliminary program            Travel             Accommodation

This workshop is partly supported by the PlaIR project : Plateforme d'Indexation Régionale

Région Haute Normandie

EU ANR LITIS Université de Rouen

 

Preliminary program
 

9h30-10h accueil des participants

10h-11h User specification

11h-12h30 Recent developments in OCR

Lunch break

14h-14h40 OCR and Typography

14h40-15h40 OCR Evaluation & Verification

 15h40-16h20 Linguistic Resources for OCR



Travel & how to get to LITIS Univ. of Rouen

Trains
There are many trains (one train per hour) from Paris (Saint Lazare station) to Rouen station.
It takes about 1h10 to travel by train from Paris to Rouen.

Going to LITIS from the Railway station (SNCF)
Take the metro : direction "Technopôle du Madrillet" until the last station "Metropôle" (see Map).
LITIS is located in the "UFR Sciences et Techniques" (see  Map)

Getting to LITIS by car (motorways)
From Paris the best way is to drive  through A13 motorway until Rouen.
From north of France, the best way in through, A1, then A29 and finally A28 until Rouen
Here are the precise location of LITIS
http://maps.google.fr/maps?q=49.387475,1.068631&num=1&sll=49.38715,1.068807&sspn=0.01021,0.022895&ie=UTF8&ll=49.38715,1.068807&spn=0.01021,0.022895&z=16&iwloc=A&lci=com.google.webcams







Accommodation
Here is a list of some hotels in town, Hotel de Dieppe and Hotel Astrid are just in front of the railway station.

 Astrid hôtel
11 place Bernard Tissot
76000 ROUEN
02 35 71 75 88

 Hôtel de Dieppe
Place Bernard Tissot
76000 ROUEN
02 35 71 96 00

Hôtel de la Gare
3 bis rue Maladrerie
76000 ROUEN
02 35 71 57 90

Hôtel Andersen
4 rue Pouchet
76000 ROUEN
02 35 71 88 51

Hôtel Beauséjour
9 rue Pouchet
76000 ROUEN
02 35 71 93 47

Hôtel Le Morand
1 rue Morand
76000 ROUEN
02 35 71 46 07

L'Ermitage Bouquet
58 rue Bouquet
76000 ROUEN
02 32 12 30 40








MAP of the Metro
MetroMAP







Campus MAP

CampusMAP