Improving Automatic Text Recognition with Language Models in the PyLaia Open-Source Library

no code implementations • 29 Apr 2024 • Solène Tarride, Yoann Schneider, Marie Generali-Lince, Mélodie Boillet, Bastien Abadie, Christopher Kermorvant

PyLaia is one of the most popular open-source software for Automatic Text Recognition (ATR), delivering strong performance in terms of speed and accuracy.

Language Modelling

The Socface Project: Large-Scale Collection, Processing, and Analysis of a Century of French Censuses

no code implementations • 29 Apr 2024 • Mélodie Boillet, Solène Tarride, Yoann Schneider, Bastien Abadie, Lionel Kesztenbaum, Christopher Kermorvant

For this project, we developed a complete processing workflow: large-scale data collection from French departmental archives, collaborative annotation of documents, training of handwritten table text and structure recognition models, and mass processing of millions of images.

Table Recognition