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Issue 13: OCR

In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we highlight several projects and use-cases related to Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

News Created: 8 July 2019 Beth Daley Matteo Romanello

Mining and exploring 200 years of newspapers: the impresso project

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With the launch this week of the Europeana Newspapers thematic collection, Dr Matteo Romanello, winner of a Europeana Research Grant in 2018, tells us about impresso - a new project exploring ways to use digitised newspaper data for research.

Europeana Newspapers search, showing various 'Oranjehuis' newspaper articles from Museon, CC BY. - Europeana Foundation

July 2019

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News Created: 3 July 2019 Beth Daley Clemens Neudecker

Europeana Newspapers - capturing the details of daily life in the past

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With the new Europeana Newspapers collection, Europeana Collections gives access to hundreds of newspaper titles and millions of newspaper pages. Today, Clemens Neudecker tells us all about how the collection was put together, and what it can be used for.

Young boys hand out newspapers to the waiting crowds

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News Created: 1 July 2019 Adrian Murphy

Extra, extra: Europeana Newspapers is out now

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With the new Europeana Newspapers thematic collection, Europeana Collections gives access to hundreds of newspaper titles and millions of newspaper pages, spanning four centuries and 20 countries from across Europe.