Adventures in OCR

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Hello HN!In a recent "Ask HN: What are you working on?" thread, I mentioned I was working on OCRing a large book:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41971614The post generated some interest so I thought I would keep HN posted.The book is Saint-Simon’s Memoirs -- an invaluable historical account of the French court under Louis XIV, full of wit, sharp observations, and of incredible literary value. I'm OCRing the edition of reference made between 1879-1930, that contains a lot of comments and footnotes: 45 volumes, ~27,000 pages.Here's a link to a blog post that describes the techniques used so far (the project is still ongoing):https://blog.medusis.com/38_Adventures+in+OCR.htmlBut you may al

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