[OpenGLAM] Fwd: [DIGLIB] Succeed 2nd Developer's Workshop

Thu Mar 27 09:38:56 UTC 2014

Dear all,

Perhaps some of you are interested in joining this free hackathon on open
source tool for text digitisation (see details below).

Best, Lieke

On the 10th and 11th of April 2014, the Succeed project will hold a
hackathon at the University of Alicante, whose aim is to look at improving
the state-of-the-art open-source tools for the digitisation of textual
content such as books and newspapers.

Over the two days, developers will work together in small groups to
discuss, roadmap and plan the future development of existing tools. Some of
the topics up for discussion are:

   - How to train the
Tesseract<http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TrainingTesseract3>
OCR
   engine.
   - Creation of XSLT stylesheets for format conversion, e.g. hOCR, PAGE,
   FRXML.
   - Debian package generation.

The hackathon provides a unique opportunity to meet developers involved in
digitisation projects all over Europe. Participation to the event is FREE
OF CHARGE, but please make sure you
reserve<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-succeed-dev-workshop-hackathon-tickets-10907317079>
your
place. Participants are also encouraged to take a look at Last year's
hackathon's outcomes<http://www.digitisation.eu/blog/1st-succeed-hackathon-kb/>
 and background
information<http://succeed-project.eu/wiki/index.php/Developers_workshops_%28hackathons%29>
.
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