🇮🇹The Venice Time Machine: The Technology for Reading 1,000 Years of Historical Documents with AI, and Its Lessons
The Venice Time Machine tried to machine-read the public records of the Republic of Venice and build a "Big Data of the Past." This article explains, from a mainly technical viewpoint, its technical pipeline of scanning, handwritten text recognition, and graph building, along with the data-quality problems that surfaced in 2019.
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