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Re: [CODE4LIB] Comparing OCR output to dictionary

Kim- Yes, I have a script that Jon Stroop wrote to do something very similar: https://github.com/pulibrary/pulfa-sausage-factory/blob/master/bin/orient_image.sh The use case was a little different (orient the

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Thanks for the pointers. Sometimes it helps to look at examples of what the results should look like. Dave From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Vo?, Jakob Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 2:58 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: [CODE4LIB] AW: [CODE4LIB]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Comparing OCR output to dictionary

Sorry, I’m told the links got lost in transit: Notebook:  https://data.nls.uk/tools/jupyter-notebooks/exploring-britain-and-uk-handbooks/ Fastwer article:  https://towardsdatascience.com/evaluating-ocr-output-quality-with-character-error-rate-cer-and-word-error-rate-wer-853175297510  (and links t

Re: [CODE4LIB] Comparing OCR output to dictionary

This Jupyter notebook from the National Library of Scotland has a section on how to evaluate OCR accuracy under the Data Cleaning chapter. You might also check out the 'fastwer' package described in this article. I have not used myself so cannot attest to it. Sarah Swanz University of Michigan,

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Comparing OCR output to dictionary

On Sep 2, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Kimberly Kennedy wrote: > I was wondering if anyone has created a script or tool to compare the words > in a text file to a dictionary? I'm looking for a way to quantify the > quality of OCR output. I've heard that counting the number of words that > are in the diction