Large Synthetic Data from the arXiv for OCR Post Correction of Historic Scientific Articles

• Main Authors: Naiman, Jill P, Cosillo, Morgan G, Williams, Peter K. G, Goodman, Alyssa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 20.09.2023
• Subjects: Computer Science - Digital Libraries; Physics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Scientific articles published prior to the "age of digitization" (~1997) require Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to transform scanned documents into machine-readable text, a process that often produces errors. We develop a pipeline for the generation of a synthetic ground truth/OCR dat...