An Online Historical Book Explorer
The PaRADIIT (Pattern Redundancy Analysis for Document Image Indexing and Transcription)
research project focused on layout analysis, text/graphics separation, Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
and text transcription processes dedicated to old and precious books.
The originality of the work relies upon the analysis and exploitation of pattern redundancy in documents
to enable the efficient indexing and quick transcription of books and the identification of typographic materials.
You can obtain more information about PaRADIIT project at
https://sites.google.com/site/paradiitproject/
This Online Book Explorer allows the users to easily interact with the digitized versions of historical books.
Using a web interface, the users can navigate, visualize, search and get annotated copies
of some specific elements of content extracted from historical books.
They can also exploit and even enrich the available meta-data obtained with the help of PaRADIIT indexing tools
by adding their own annotations on all the parts of the books.
Please, consult the Help, to quickly understand how to use the Book Explorer.
