As the digitization of historical documents, such as newspapers, becomes more common,
the need of the archive patron for accurate digital text from those documents increases …

This paper presents the 'NoisyOffice'database. It consists of images of printed text
documents with noise mainly caused by uncleanliness from a generic office, such as coffee …

The usefulness of digitized documents is directly related to the quality of the extracted text.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has reached a point where well-formatted and clean …

Supervised topic models are promising tools for text analytics that simultaneously model
topical patterns in document collections and relationships between those topics and …

Modern document collections are too large to annotate and curate manually. As increasingly
large amounts of data become available, historians, librarians and other scholars …

We present a simple and accurate approach for aligning historical documents with their
corresponding transcription. First, a representative of each letter in the historical document is …