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Re:Ask HN: OCR for 100 year old (German) handwritten cursive... by robertknight on Monday January 15, 2024 @02:40PM (#39005157)
You could try something like https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ or https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting. Both have support for modern handwriting. I don't know if it will work with a script written a century ago though.
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Re:Ask HN: OCR for 100 year old (German) handwritten cursive... by 082349872349872 on Monday January 15, 2024 @03:04PM (#39005402)
if it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sütterlin I doubt anything trained on current script would make any more sense of it than we do
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Re:Ask HN: OCR for 100 year old (German) handwritten cursive... by rolltrunhert on Monday January 15, 2024 @06:35PM (#39007523)
There's models for this, see https://readcoop.eu/model/german-kurrent-and-sutterlin-17th-...
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