Ottoman archives explorer: a retrieval system for digital Ottoman archives
Author
Yalniz, I. Z.
Altingovde, I. S.
Güdükbay, Uğur
Ulusoy, Özgür
Date
2009-12Source Title
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
Print ISSN
1556-4673
Electronic ISSN
1556-4711
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
Volume
2
Issue
3
Pages
8:1 - 8:20
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
This article presents Ottoman Archives Explorer, a Content-Based Retrieval (CBR) system based on character recognition for printed and handwritten historical documents. Several methods for character segmentation and recognition stages are investigated. In particular, sliding-window and histogram segmentation methods are coupled with recognition approaches using spatial features, neural networks, and a graph-based model. The prototype system provides CBR of document images using both example-based queries and a virtual keyboard to construct query words. © 2009 ACM.
Keywords
Content-based retrieval (CBR)Historical document analysis
Information retrieval (IR)
Optical character recognition (OCR)
CBR
Character segmentation
Construct queries
Graph-based modeling
Histogram segmentation
Historical documents
Retrieval systems
Graphic methods
History
Optical character recognition
Query processing
Search engines