Bringing HTR to the HPC
Customizing the eScriptorium HTR software for use on Princeton high performance computing hardware
Customizing the eScriptorium HTR software for use on Princeton high performance computing hardware
Bringing HTR to the HPC: A Pilot to Customize eScriptorium for Princeton is a subproject of the Princeton Open HTR Initiative.
This research partnership with the CDH is intended to set up and evaluate a test instance of eScriptorium, the current leader in open-source handwritten text recognition (HTR) software designed by and for scholars working with historical texts.
HTR2HPC will assess, evaluate and document requirements for setting up and maintaining an infrastructure for Princeton researchers, regardless of technical background, corpus size, language, or team size to use freely, efficiently, effectively and sustainably.
This phase, exploring modifications to the eScriptorium software to function in a high performance computing (HPC) environment like Princeton’s Research Computing, is a critical first step towards realizing that goal.
Establishing research infrastructures to support Princeton use of HTR for manuscripts and archival documents in a variety of languages and scripts
2 July 2024
Carrie Ruddick, Jeri Wieringa
Using emerging technologies to transform research, teaching and understanding of pre-modern evidence
Research Partnership