ochre

A tool to clean up text generated by OCR using individual words as well as their context.

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What ochre can do for you

  • Train character-based language models/LSTMs for OCR post-correction
  • Ready to use workflows for data preprocessing, training correction models, doing the post-correction, and analyzing (remaining) errors
  • Compare (corrected) OCR text to the gold standard based on character error rate (CER), word error rate (WER), and order independent word error rate
  • Analyze OCR errors on the word level
  • Discover OCR post-correction data sets

Ochre is experimental software for cleaning up text with OCR mistakes. The software was developed to investigate whether character-based language models can be used to remove OCR mistakes. In addition, ochre provides functionality to analyze the kinds of OCR mistakes in a corpus. This enables researchers to compare different OCR post-correction methods and find out what kinds of mistakes they are good at solving.

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Programming languages
  • Common Workflow Language 43%
  • Jupyter Notebook 39%
  • Python 16%
  • HTML 1%
  • Shell 1%
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Participating organisations

Social Sciences & Humanities
Social Sciences & Humanities
Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Netherlands eScience Center

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Contact person

Janneke van der Zwaan

Janneke van der Zwaan

Netherlands eScience Center
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Janneke van der Zwaan
Janneke van der Zwaan
Netherlands eScience Center

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