期刊名称：LIBER Quarterly - Journal of European Research Libraries
印刷版ISSN：2213-056X
出版年度：2020
卷号：30
期号：1
页码：1-20
DOI：10.18352/lq.10322
出版社：Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
摘要：The National Library of Finland (NLF) has digitized historical newspapers,
journals and ephemera published in Finland since the late 1990s. The present
collection consists of about 16.51 million pages mainly in Finnish and
Swedish. Out of these about 7.64 million pages are freely available on the
web site https:/ / digi.kansalliskirjasto.f / etusivu. The copyright restricted
part of the collection can be used at six legal deposit libraries in different
parts of Finland. The time period of the open collection is from 1771 to 1929.
The last nine years, 1921–1929, were opened in January 2018.
This paper presents brief y the ground truth Optical Character Recognition
data of about 500,000 words that has been compiled at the NLF for development of an improved OCR process for the Finnish collection. We
discuss compilation of the data generally and show results of the new OCR
process in comparison to current OCR, using the ground truth data as an
evaluation benchmark. We also show with real newspaper data of 30 years
and 109 million words that the re-OCRing process is improving the quality
of the OCRed data.
其他摘要：The National Library of Finland (NLF) has digitized historical newspapers, journals and ephemera published in Finland since the late 1990s. The present collection consists of about 16.51 million pages mainly in Finnish and Swedish. Out of these about 7.64 million pages are freely available on the web site https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/etusivu . The copyright restricted part of the collection can be used at six legal deposit libraries in different parts of Finland. The time period of the open collection is from 1771 to 1929. The last nine years, 1921–1929, were opened in January 2018. This paper presents briefly the ground truth Optical Character Recognition data of about 500 000 words that has been compiled at the NLF for development of an improved OCR process for the Finnish collection. We discuss compilation of the data generally and show results of the new OCR process in comparison to current OCR, using the ground truth data as an evaluation benchmark. We also show with real newspaper data of 30 years and 109 million words that the re-OCRing process is improving the quality of the OCRed data.
关键词：OCR quality;ground truth data;evaluation;measurement;Finnish historical newspapers
