Re:Automated reading of medieval manuscripts: Alternative fo...
by analog31 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @10:27PM
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I have a friend who does transcription, and says that she can recognize the handwriting of people like Thomas Aquinas and other Medieval figures. She works for some research group that has microfilms from a large cache of documents that are kept in some vault in France.
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Re:Automated reading of medieval manuscripts: Alternative fo...
by jan_Inkepa on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @11:08PM
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For those who don't know, Thomas Aquinas has a reputation of having tricky to read handwriting https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/mbbjcw/this_is_said_... (I remember trying to find some description of his shorthand/writing style, but couldn't find anything - people love talking about how hard it is to read but never try explain how to read it...), but more generally medieval manuscripts have a large number of shorthandy abbreviations which throw up lots of problems for naive OCR-ing/reading, even if you know the language in question.