Dataset and scripts used in paper "Exploiting Existing Modern Transcripts for Historical Handwritten Text Recognition"

This package contains the dataset and scripts used in the research paper titled "Exploiting Existing Modern Transcripts for Historical Handwritten Text Recognition" that was published in the ICFHR 2016 conference proceedings. Unfortunately not all of the code used in the experiments is open source, so what is provided is not enough to really reproduce the results. Nevertheless, it should be useful to understand in more detail how the experimentation was performed. The scripts make use of the library for handwritten text recognition that is available at: https://github.com/mauvilsa/htrsh The dataset is in PRImA Page XML format (http://www.primaresearch.org/tools). To visualize the what is contained in the xml files on top of the images, the following open source tool can be used: https://github.com/mauvilsa/nw-page-editor