Name: 2ⁿᵈ Exchange Meeting of SCOOP: International Network for Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources
Start: 2026-09-07T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-09T19:00:00+02:00
Location: University of Vienna

Serena Ammirati (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)

Speaker at Beyond the Heatmap: What Faithful Explanations Can Do for Handwriting Identification

Tara Andrews (University of Vienna)

Speaker at Classification of Armenian manuscripts without OCR/HTR preprocessing

Bernhard Bauer (University of Graz)

Speaker at Matchbox: Creating a Combined Recognition Model for Early Medieval Celtic Languages and Latin

Olaf Berg (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Speaker at Building an ATR pipeline for tabular data and script translation

Colin Brisson (Ecolé pratique des hautes études)

Speaker at AnandaSky

Elena Chepel (University of Vienna)

Speaker at Anagnostes - Towards a Transformer-based OCR System for Ancient Greek Papyri

Thibault Clérice (ALMAnaCH, Inria)

Speaker at The Transcription/Edition Distinction as a Foundation for Trustworthy Automatic Text Recognition

Nikola Krisztian Czindrity (University of Vienna)

Speaker at From Old Icelandic HTR Outputs to Normalised Texts through Seq2Seq Transformers

Wayne de Fremery (Dominican University of California)

Speaker at New Ways to Transform and Explore Older Korean Texts: From ATR to Reading Texts to Agentic Retrieval in Mo文oNExplorer

Giuseppe De Gregorio (Computer Vision Center - CVC - Barcelona)

Speaker at Script classification and alphabet identification

Anna Dolganov (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Speaker at New Epistemic Frontiers: LLMs for Linking Transcription, Editing, and Interpretation

Jessie Dummer (University of Pennsylvania Libraries)

Speaker at Integrating HTR into Digital Library Workflows

Doug Emery (University of Pennsylvania Libraries)

Speaker at Piloting HTR in the Library: Experiments and Groundwork

Osama Eshera (University of Maryland)

Speaker at Iterative HTR: A new pipeline for automatic text recognition of Arabic-script

Paweł Figurski (Polish Academy of Sciences)

Speaker at HTR of Normalized Latin Texts: Insights from Liturgical Manuscripts

David Fleischhacker (University of Graz)

Speaker at Multi-Model OCR Arbitration: High-Precision OCR for 19th Century Administrative Mass Sources

Tim Geelhaar (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Speaker at Reviving the Legacy: How to Adapt the Latin Text Archive for the Age of AI

Wolfgang Goederle (University of Graz | University of Passau | MPI GEA)

Speaker at Multi-Model OCR Arbitration: High-Precision OCR for 19th Century Administrative Mass Sources

Alicia González Martínez (Hamburg University)

Speaker at From PDF to mARkdown: A Scalable Arabic OCR Pipeline for expanding the OpenITI Corpus

Sam Grieggs (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

Speaker at Communities of Practice: Capturing the Aspect of Late Medieval Handwriting

Aaron Hershkowitz (The Institute for Advanced Study)

Speaker at Classifying Squeezes Again: Initial Results from an ICDAR Contest

Tobias Hodel (University of Bern)

Speaker at Insights from an Unsound Experiment: Testing Kraken, TrOCR, and VLMs with an LLM Judge

Ephrem Aboud Ishac (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Speaker at Syriac Manuscripts That Can Talk: Giving Voice to Under-Resourced Scripts in HTR

Andrew Janco (Princeton University)

Speaker at From Document Images to Research Catalogue
Speaker at Which Languages Are In-Vocabulary?

Benjamin Kiessling (ALMAnaCH, Inria Paris)

Speaker at Computational Paleography through Automatic Text Recognition

Johannes Knüchel (Austrian National Library)

Speaker at Building an OCR Pipeline at the Austrian National Library

Seth Kulick (Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania)

Speaker at Using OCR to expand a treebank of historical Yiddish: A Progress Report
Speaker at Using OCR to expand historical treebanks

Michael Lužný (National Library of the Czech Republic)

Speaker at Manuscriptorium Full-Text Module: Building a Digital-Edition Infrastructure

Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello (University of Basel)

Speaker at The language of Greek papyri? One millennium of writing and its complexity

William Mattingly (Yale University)

Speaker at Finetuning VLMs in a World of Zero-Shot Frontier Models: A Paradigm Shift toward Knowledge Distillation and Local Deployment

Paolo Merialdo (Roma Tre University)

Speaker at Beyond the Heatmap: What Faithful Explanations Can Do for Handwriting Identification

Anna Michalcová (Czech Language Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Speaker at Lost in Transcription? Reconciling HTR Output with Old Czech Editorial Standards

Ana Mihaljević (Institute for the Croatian language)

Speaker at Four Scripts, Five Languages, One Digitalization Challenge
Speaker at Reading Glagolitic in the Twenty-First Century: Between Philology, HTR, and AI

Sajjad Nikfahm-Khubravan (Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland)

Speaker at Towards Geometry-Based Scribal Hand Analysis: A Word-Level Graphometric Framework for Arabic Manuscripts

Jan Odstrčilík (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences)

Speaker at Otto Dei gram, rogat vram Clam. From facsimile and descriptive transcriptions to “quasi-diplomatic” and interpretative approaches in ATR/HTR

Alexander O'Neill (Musashino University)

Speaker at Testing the Reuse Value of Pracalit Ground Truth for Bhujimol Manuscripts

Asimina Paparrigopoulou (Democritus University of Thrace)

Speaker at From Handwriting Classification Errors to Paleographic Evidence: Graphic Compensation in Ancient Greek Documentary Hands

Paraskevi Platanou (Athens University of Economics and Business, and Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece)

Speaker at From Handwriting Classification Errors to Paleographic Evidence: Graphic Compensation in Ancient Greek Documentary Hands

Baptiste Queuche (Calfa)

Speaker at How hybrid HTR+VLM approaches are unlocking the processing of under-resourced, non-western languages

Michal Racyn (Masaryk University)

Speaker at Utilization of the Open WebUI platform in Arkindex

Tristan Repolusk (Department of Digital Humanities, University of Graz)

Speaker at Document Layout Analysis for Glossed Medieval Manuscripts: Comparing Kraken 6 and YOLO26

Anton Repushko (Independent Researcher)

Speaker at Anagnostes - Towards a Transformer-based OCR System for Ancient Greek Papyri

Martin Roček (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences and Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

Speaker at Intertextuality as a Retrieval Task: Benchmarking Text Reuse in Classical and Medieval Latin

Christine Roughan (Princeton University)

Speaker at Impacts of Script Features on Text Recognition: Experiments with Greek and Arabic

Michael Schonhardt (TU Darmstadt / Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz)

Speaker at The Pragmatics of ATR Pipelines: Structural Dilemmas in Designing Workflows for Historical Corpora

David Smith (Northeastern University)

Speaker at New Epistemic Frontiers: LLMs for Linking Transcription, Editing, and Interpretation

Sebastian Sobecki (University of Toronto)

Speaker at Communities of Practice: Capturing the Aspect of Late Medieval Handwriting

Ursula Stampfer (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

Speaker at HTR in the German Manuscript Centres: Current Status, Challenges, and Perspectives

Andy Stauder (READ COOP)

Speaker at Metatools & Technological Agnosticism

Dominique Stutzmann (IRHT-CNRS / HU Berlin)

Speaker at Workflows and granularities: text, image, and what remains

Daniel Tubb (Anthropology, University of New Brunswick, Canada)

Speaker at Fichero and the Circuit Court Archive of Istmina: An AI Workflow App for Researchers

Katrín Lísa van der Linde Mikaelsdóttir (University of Iceland)

Speaker at Dark Vellum, Dense Diacritics: Challenges in Training HTR Models for Medieval Icelandic

Malamatenia Vlachou (IRHT/CNRS-ENPC)

Speaker at Leveraging HTR for Script Characterization: Toward a Unified Computational Framework for Palaeographical Analysis

Elise Wang (California State University, Fullerton)

Speaker at Finding our way through the National Archives: HTR for indexing a large corpus

2ⁿᵈ Exchange Meeting of SCOOP: International Network for Automated Text Recognition of Historical Sources

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