Newspaper archives and AI (IMAGE)

University of Victoria

Newspaper archives and AI

Caption

Highlighted words and boxed regions in a historical newspaper page show how optical character recognition (OCR) segments text and identifies entities and themes within individual articles.

Credit

Images are from The Daily Colonist collection on Internet Archive between 1894-1896; graphic compiled by Chloë Farr, University of Victoria.

Usage Restrictions

No restrictions.

License

Public Domain

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