ADHO Digital Humanities Conference 2023 (DH2023)
Published June 30, 2023 | Version v1
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A speculative design for future handwritten text recognition: HTR use, and its impact on historical research and the digital record.

Authors/Creators

  • 1. School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Edinburgh; National Library of Scotland, United Kingdom, Scotland
  • 2. Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 3. Information Studies, College of Arts, University of Glasgow

Contributors

  • 1. University of Graz
  • 2. Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities
  • 3. Le Mans Université
  • 4. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum

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With image-to-text character recognition now possible, this paper presents a speculative design of handwritten text recognition (HTR): asking what impact it may have on the historical method in the near-future? Through this speculative approach, we present a minimal design for the development of HTR, using evidence collected from a grounded theory study.

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Book: 10.5281/zenodo.7961822 (DOI)