This repository contains
- Trained ocropy models for (old) French with an emphasize to fonts and language as they looked in 16th-19th century.
- The data (image lines together with their transcription) which where used for the training.
- Tools which where used in this process.
The usual accents in French texts like é, è, ê, á, à, ô, ç are present but old text also use
the long-s, which looks very similar to a f.
Moreover, the usual ligaturs including the less-often used ct ligatur
as well as some special styling of the large letter Q can occur.
Here is an example of such a digitized page:
- Find a suitable French text
- Find a suitable Type font
- Finish the generation scripts
- Generate the lines
- Start training the model
- Evaluate with real texts
- Improve the model
This is free software.
This project bundles other free software, fonts, texts:
- IM Fell, True Type version (SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1)
- Honoré de Balzac (1830): La Vendetta. Œuvres complètes de H. de Balzac, A. Houssiaux, 1855, 1 (pp. 168-230). https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Vendetta_%28Balzac%29