11 — OCR: Digitized Data

New data from old paper.

Lecturer

Julian Hinz

Date

March 1, 2026

This is data.

This module covers Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for digitizing historical and archival data. Applications include Lloyd’s List shipping records, Dutch colonial records, and clay tablets.

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This module is part of the full Bielefeld University course (Summer 2026).