Virtual Workshop (Free): “Introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)” (03/22/24)
The Scholars Lab at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries is hosting a Digital Humanities Workshop Series for Spring 2024. The last virtual workshop in the series is “Introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)”. This workshop introduces the basics of optical character recognition (OCR), which allows for full-text searching and other types of text manipulation of a digitized document. Attendees will learn how to use Google Docs to create a basic machine-readable text from an image file and be introduced to Tesseract for OCR through exercises in Google Colab. The virtual workshop is scheduled for March 22, 2024 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CT. The workshop is free to attend, however registration is required.
The virtual workshop is scheduled for Friday, March 22, 2024 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CT.
Learn more at https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/digital-humanities-workshops.
Workshop Schedule and Registration Link:
The workshop is free to attend, however registration is required.
- “Introduction to Optical Character Recognition (OCR)”: Friday, March 22, 2024 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM CT.
Please direct all inquiries to Karina Sánchez at karinasanchez@austin.utexas.edu.