Distinctive features of recognition for documents printed in the Romanian transitional alphabets

Abstract

In this paper, we summarize the research of digitization of documents printed by Romanian transitional alphabet. These printings are the most original Romanian historical documents, which makes our experience useful when researching OCR methods for similar alphabets. The current work is focused to OCR that is the first stage of scanned documents digitization. The technique of OCR of documents, printed in the Romanian transitional alphabet, is presented. In particular, this technique is embedded in our digitization platform HeDy. A series of examples is presented to demonstrate the application of the described technique.

Keywords

• cultural heritage
• ocr
• romanian transitional alphabets