iDigBio Augmenting OCR Workshop

Submitted by Dave Roberts on Tue, 28/08/2012 - 15:56

Participants in the October workshop will identify OCR output
products that will be useful for the community as well as metrics that
will help evaluate how well different automated approaches produce these
products. This process may include measures of accuracy of the OCR as
well as accuracy of automated error correction and effectiveness of
breaking text into meaningful semantic units (e.g., precision, recall
and F-Score). Participants will also determine the specific focus of the
February Hack-a-thon in order to provide well-defined programmatic
goals for software developers.

The October workshop participants will help to identify and collect
images representative of those are needed by the biology community. This
collection of images will serve as the working set for software
developers in the February Hack-a-thon.