Comparative analysis of optical character recognition methods for Sámi texts from the National Library of Norway

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07300v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:07:51 GMT
• Title: Comparative analysis of optical character recognition methods for Sámi texts from the National Library of Norway
• Authors: Tita Enstad, Trond Trosterud, Marie Iversdatter Røsok, Yngvil Beyer, Marie Roald,
• Abstract summary: We evaluate and improve OCR for text written in S'ami languages. Our results show that Transkribus and TrOCR outperform Tesseract on this task. We also show that fine-tuning pre-trained models and supplementing manual annotations can yield accurate OCR for S'ami languages.
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• Abstract: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is crucial to the National Library of Norway's (NLN) digitisation process as it converts scanned documents into machine-readable text. However, for the S\'ami documents in NLN's collection, the OCR accuracy is insufficient. Given that OCR quality affects downstream processes, evaluating and improving OCR for text written in S\'ami languages is necessary to make these resources accessible. To address this need, this work fine-tunes and evaluates three established OCR approaches, Transkribus, Tesseract and TrOCR, for transcribing S\'ami texts from NLN's collection. Our results show that Transkribus and TrOCR outperform Tesseract on this task, while Tesseract achieves superior performance on an out-of-domain dataset. Furthermore, we show that fine-tuning pre-trained models and supplementing manual annotations with machine annotations and synthetic text images can yield accurate OCR for S\'ami languages, even with a moderate amount of manually annotated data.

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