Dević Hameršmit, Marta.
(2018).
Analysis and Optical Recognition of Handwriting from Herbarium Labels in the Herbarium Croaticum Collection.
Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Information Science.
[mentor Stančić, Hrvoje].
Abstract
This thesis consists of theoretical and practical part of preparation process of analysis of handwritings and creation of database of characters. The goal is to analyze the diversity of handwriting collections from the Herbarium Croaticum collection stored in the Flora Croatica database and to create a database of the handwriting characters from the 10 most common plant collectors from the Herbarium Croaticum collection of the Botanical Division of the Biology Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. The aim of this thesis is to facilitate and speed up the search, reading and decrypting handwriting process for users by creating alphabets for each of the 10 selected authors. In the theoretical part, the concepts of herbarium, herbarium collection and label are explained and examined. It also deals with the optical recognition of characters and manuscripts (OCR, ICR, HCR) and the possible application in the digitization of herbarium collections. Within the practical part of the results, the steps that are needed to achieve this goal as well as the programs that can be used are analyzed and presented.
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