Authors:	Tabin, Julius A.
Title:	Optical character recognition applied to hieratic : sign identification and broad analysis
Online publication date:	12-Oct-2023
Year of first publication:	2023
Language:	english
Abstract:	Despite modern advances in digital paleographic techniques, hieratic has largely eluded the thorough application of technological methods for automatic sign recognition. To remedy this, this article presents two new hieratic facsimiles (of the Shipwrecked Sailor and part of the Eloquent Peasant), a novel data set of 13,134 individual hieratic signs, and an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) based program developed to analyze them using an Image Deformation Model. This program is highly accurate and various applications are presented, from single character identification to large-scale sign comparisons. This article provides an important building block in the study of hieratic digital paleography, allowing far more signs to be compared at once than ever before, and offers a free, open-source tool and data set.
DDC:	490 Andere Sprachen 490 Other languages 930 Alte Geschichte 930 History of ancient world 960 Geschichte Afrikas 960 General history of Africa
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	Externe Einrichtungen
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9590
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Monographie
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Extent:	59 Seiten
Publisher:	Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur
Publisher place:	Mainz
Issue date:	2023
Appears in collections:	JGU-Publikationen