Programme

Lightning Talks Panel 4

Mastering Complexity

Advanced Segmentation and Text Recognition for Challenging Documents

Tuesday 22 September 13:45 – 15:00

All six talks wrestle with material that actively resists standard HTR — physically, structurally, or linguistically.

Contents

  1. i.

    Handling Marginalia with Field Models: The Diaries of Martin Crusius

  2. ii.

    Training HTR on Manuscripts That Refuse to Cooperate: Ink, Insects, and Adverse Conditions

  3. iii.

    Taming the Margins: Teaching Transkribus to Read Chaotic Notarial Archives?

  4. iv.

    An Integrated Approach to Transcribing Expedition Diaries with Transkribus and Generative AI

  5. v.

    Peering through the mountain of politico-legal advice: ATR and NER and the knowledge hub of the French bureaux des Affaires Étrangères

  6. vi.

    Towards a Universal Schema: Methodological Guidelines for Structural Segmentation