2 papers
cs.CV2026
Error Patterns in Historical OCR: A Comparative Analysis of TrOCR and a Vision-Language Model
Ari Vesalainen, Eetu Mäkelä, Laura Ruotsalainen +1
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of eighteenth-century printed texts remains challenging due to degraded print quality, archaic glyphs, and non-standardized orthography. Althoug…
cs.CV2025
Creating a Historical Migration Dataset from Finnish Church Records, 1800-1920
Ari Vesalainen, Jenna Kanerva, Aida Nitsch +4
This article presents a large-scale effort to create a structured dataset of internal migration in Finland between 1800 and 1920 using digitized church moving records. These record…