Which way up is the page?
A reel of eighteenth-century court papers came off the scanner with many of its pages on their side. We developed an algorithm to work out which were sideways and to rotate them to their correct orientation
Tag
Tagged archives
3 articles tagged “archives”.
2026
The engine that made it up
We measured two compact vision-language models as candidate local backends. One is in. The other produced the best score any engine has recorded on our hardest fixture, and it did it by inventing words that were never on the page
What we will be writing about
Opening this section with the two things it is for: the state of OCR for real archival material, and the working notes from building a tool for it.