Bringing HTR to the HPC
Built by CDH
Customizing the eScriptorium HTR software for use on Princeton high performance computing hardware
Code
Code
Rebecca Sutton Koeser and Christine Roughan. htr2hpc. Python. V. 0.5. Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton, August 2025.
Documentation
Documentation
Mary Naydan, Christine Roughan, Rebecca Sutton Koeser, Helmut Reimitz and Marina Rustow, "CDH Project Charter – Bringing HTR to the HPC 2024" (Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton, October 13, 2025).
Publications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
Christine Roughan and Rebecca Sutton Koeser. “Integrating ATR Software with University HPC Infrastructure: Balancing Diverse Compute Needs.” (Paper presented at US Research Software Engineering Conference 2025, Philadelphia, PA. USRSE25 Conference Proceedings)
Christine Roughan. “Integrating ATR Software with University HPC Infrastructure.” (SCOOP: Source Codes of the Past: Launching an international ATR/HTR Network for Manuscript Analysis, Princeton; June 13, 2025).
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.
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Princeton Open HTR Initiative
Establishing research infrastructures to support Princeton use of HTR for manuscripts and archival documents in a variety of languages and scripts
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