Veröffentlicht am: https://blog.crossasia.org/pechabridge/
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Nico Mothes, Dirk Tilger and Theresa Scherling Digitization makes historical Tibetan pecha prints visible online, but visibility alone does not make their content readable, searchable, or reusable for research. PechaBridge is an open-source pipeline connecting digitized materials from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin with layout analysis, Tibetan OCR, metadata, and review tools. From Digitized Pages to Researchable Text Historical pecha pages differ substantially from modern book pages. Their horizontal format, paper texture, red and black ink, annotations, uneven baselines, and varying states of preservation challenge standard OCR. A useful transcription must remain connected to the original image,…