Poor access to digitised historical texts
Hildelies Balk · 2009
While there is an increasing demand for digitally available material (text that is not digital is becoming virtually invisible), digitised material is becoming available too slowly and in too small quantities. And even if the material is digitised, the OCR (optical character recognition) technology does often not produce satisfactory results, especially for historical documents. This is due to various problems such as historic fonts, complex layouts, ink shining through and historical spelling variants.