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New catalog and HTR accuracy measurement for Tsiolkovsky papers

Researchers have developed a machine-readable catalog for the personal archives of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, comprising 2,019 files and over 51,000 scans. This catalog includes dating for most files and a classification of each scan as either handwriting or typescript. Additionally, the paper introduces a novel method for evaluating handwritten text recognition (HTR) accuracy in archival settings lacking ground truth, by comparing manuscript and typed versions of documents. AI

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New catalog and HTR accuracy measurement for Tsiolkovsky papers

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Vladimir Beskorovainyi ·

    A machine-readable catalogue of the Tsiolkovsky papers (fond 555, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences), and a way to measure how well its handwriting can be read

    arXiv:2608.03617v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The personal archive of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935) is held as fond 555 of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The archive scanned the fond and published the images, but with no queryable catalogue, no full-text s…