Speaker
Jessie Dummer
(University of Pennsylvania Libraries)
Description
With the rapid improvement of handwritten text recognition models, large language models, and multimodal AI models, the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is assessing how these technologies can be applied at scale across its handwritten collections. This presentation will focus on an emerging project to apply HTR to a group of fifteenth-century Italian manuscripts written in humanistic scripts. It will explore challenges and opportunities relevant to the entirety of the Libraries’ multilingual manuscript collection and consider how transcription datasets resulting from HTR projects can be leveraged for different library applications.