A System for Processing and Recognition of Old Greek Manuscripts (The D-SCRIBE Project)

Abstract:- After many years of scholar study, manuscript collections continue to be an important source of novel information for scholars, concerning both the history of earlier times as well as the development of cultural documentation over the centuries. In this paper we present research efforts leading to the creation of a comprehensive software product, which can assist the content holders in turning an archive of manuscripts into a digital collection using automated methods. The system aims at supporting and facilitating current and future efforts in Early Christian Greek manuscript digitization and processing. A number of modules have been developed for the study and processing of the digital collections and are integrated under a common software environment. These modules include a document management system particularly adapted for manuscripts, a module for automatic processing and transliteration of manuscripts incorporating OCR techniques and a self study tool for the use of paleographers. In this paper, we focus on the description of the aforementioned modules that comprise the final system for processing and recognition of old Greek Manuscripts