In the projects and organisations listed below ABBYY Gothic OCR was used to digitize and convert historic documents.

• University of Southampton Improves Access to its Collection
  • The Library selected Recognition Server because it perfectly matched their requirements – delivery of high quality OCR on printed texts; a broad variety of output options; and an open API for easy integration with other programs.
  • cs_uni_southampton_rs_e.pdf

• University of Zurich - State Archive Zurich (10/2011)
  • The tasks of the project are automatic image-to-text conversion (OCR) of the approximately 11,000 pages. These documents are typeset in Gothic script (blackletter or Fraktur) mixed with the antiqua fonts of modern typesetting.
  • In a cooperation project of the State Archive and the Institute of Computational Linguistics at the University of Zurich, we digitize these texts and prepare them for public online access.
  • The publication: gothicocr_furrer_volk_2011.pdf
    • Scientific Publication - 7 pages
    • OCR ABBYY Recognition Server 3.0, Gothic enabled,
    • Post processing and analysis based on the XML Output.
  • New: Case Study in German about the project
  • Staatsarchiv Zürich Regierungsratsbeschlüsse online (German)

• National Library of Lithuania
  
  • Recognition Server was truly a “pleasure to work with”, according to E.Ragutskis. “It provided unsurpassed recognition quality, ease of verification, flexible workflow configuration and allowed us to complete the project easier than expected. Project was made with a budget 4 times smaller than initially planned.”
  • PDF of the Case Study EN - online
  • More Infos: http://www.lnb.lt/

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  • The EOD service was started within the framework of the project “Digitisation on Demand” co-funded by the eTEN programme line.
  • EOD uses ABBYY Recognition Server with Fraktur/Gothic Support extended with additional technologies developed by the University of Innsbruck.
  • More infos: http://www.books2ebooks.eu/
  • Read more about the network and service: Mühlberger, Günter, and Silvia Gstrein.
    “EBooks on Demand (EOD): a European Digitization Service.” IFLA Journal. 35. 1 (2009): 35-43.
    Online: http://archive.ifla.org/V/iflaj/IFLA-Journal-1-2009.pdf

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  • The Bavarian State Library uses ABBYY Recognition Server

• Fraunhofer-Institut & Neue Züricher Zeitung
  
  • Newspaper Archive Digitalisation (NZZ) 2 million newspaper pages from 1780-2005

(70 Terabyte) executed by
Fraunhofer Institut Intelligente Analyse- und Informationssysteme

• Realised with FineReader Engine(SDK) and additional developed technology (newspaper page analysis) by the Fraunhofer-Institut
• More Infos: http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de/
• PDF of the original Press Release DE - EN

• CCS Content Conversion: docWorks
  
  • Library digitalisation Solution with ABBYYs OCR SDK
  • More infos: http://www.content-conversion.com/
  • PDF of the original Press Release DE

• Queen Mary University London
  
  • Queen Mary, University of London is one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions.
  • The academic research project “The Discourse of German Nationalism and Anti-Semitism 1871-1918” is being conducted by the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
  • ABBYY Historic Font Technology Helps University Researchers Shed Light on the Past

• Project Gutenberg & FineReader XIX
  
  • More infos: http://www.gaga.net/pgdp/default.php
  • PDF of the Press Release DE - EN

• Universität Innsbruck
  
  • The team of the Department for Digitisation and Digital Preservation and the head of the group Günter Mühlberger is also involved in IMPACT
  • More Infos: http://www.uibk.ac.at/ulb/dea/
  • PDF of the original Press Release DE

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