Looking for 17th c. French manuscrits is not a simple: many found in libraries are forgeries or misattributions. Then, how to authenticate documents? Paleography is a first obvious solution, but tracing the history of documents in time is another. We are therefore planning to extract data from sale catalogues to build a database of manuscripts sold to reconstitute their history.
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OCRising 17th French prints
In the past few years, OCR tools have dramatically increased their efficiency and accuracy. We have therefore decided to create a ground truth bank for 17th French prints – because of research we are currently carrying on stylometry, but also because it is one sure way to get non-nomalised 17th French texts.
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