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Springer Guide To Ocr For Indic Scripts: Document Recognition And Retrieval by Venu Govindaraju Srirangaraj Setlur
Theoriginalmotivationsfordevelopingopticalcharacterrecognitiontechnologies Weremodesttoconvertprintedtexton?AtphysicalmediatodigitalformProd- Ingmachine-Readabledigitalcontent. BydoingthisWordsthathadbeeninertand Bound To Physical Material Would Be Brought Into The Digital Realm And Thus Gain Newandpowerfulfunctionalitiesandanalyticalpossibilities. First-Generation Digital Ocr Researchers In The 1970S Quickly Realized That By Limiting Their Ambitions Primarily To Contemporary Documents Printed In St- Dard Font Type From The Modern Roman Alphabet (And Of These Mostly English Language Materials) They Were Constraining The Possibilities For Future Research Andtechnologiesconsiderably. Domainresearchersalsosawthatthetrajectoryof Ocr Technologies If Left Unchanged Would Exclude A Large Portion Of The Human Record. DigitalconversionofdocumentsandmanuscriptsinotheralphabetsScripts And Cursive Styles Was Of Critical Importance.Embedded In Non-Roman Alp- Bet Source Documents Including Ancient Manuscripts Papyri Scrolls Clay Tablets And Other Inscribed Artifacts Was Not Only A Wealth Of Scholarly Information But AlsonewopportunitiesandchallengesforadvancingocrImagingsciencesAnd Othercomputationalresearchareas. Thelimitingcircumstancesatthetimeincluded The Rudimentary Capability (And High Cost) Of Computational Resources And Lack Of Network-Accessible Digital Content. Since Then Computational Technology Has Advancedataveryrapidpaceandnetworkinginfrastructurehasproliferated. Over Time Thisexponential Decrease Inthecost Of Computation Memory And Com- Nicationsbandwidthcombinedwiththeexponentialincreaseininternet-Accessible DigitalcontenthastransformededucationScholarshipAndresearch. Largenumbers OfresearchersScholarsAndstudentsuseanddependuponinternet-Basedcontent Andcomputationalresources. Thechaptersinthisbookdescribeacriticallyimportantareaofinvestigation- Addressingconversionofindicscriptintomachine-Readableform. Roughestimates Haveitthatcurrentlymorethanabillionpeopleuseindicscripts. CollectivelyIndic Historic And Cultural Documents Contain A Vast Richness Of Human Knowledge And Experience.The State-Of-The-Art Research Described In This Book Demonstrates The Multiple Values Associated With These Activities. Technically The Problems Associated With Indicscriptrecognitionareverydif?Cultandwillcontributetoandinformrelated V Vi Foreword Scriptrecognitionefforts. Theworkalsohasenormousconsequenceforenriching Andenablingthestudyofindicculturalheritagematerialsandthehistoricrecord Of Its People. This In Turn Broadens The Intellectual Context For Domain Scholars FocusingonothersocietiesAncientandmodern. Digital Character Recognition Has Brought About Another Milestone In Coll- Tivecommunicationbybringinginert?Xed-In-PlaceTextintoaninteractivedi- Talrealm. IndoingsoTheinformationhasgainedadditionalfunctionalitieswhich ExpandourabilitiestoconnectCombineContextualizeShareAndcollaboratively Pursue Knowledge Making. High-Quality Internet Content Continues To Grow In An Explosivefashion. InthenewglobalcyberenvironmentThefunctionalitiesandapp- Cationsofdigitalinformationcontinuetotransformknowledgeintonewundersta- Ingsofhumanexperienceandtheworldinwhichwelive.Thepossibilitiesforthe Futurearelimitedonlybyavailableresearchresourcesandcapabilitiesandtheim- Inationandcreativityofthosewhousethem. ArlingtonVirginia Stephenm.Show More