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Small open OCR models are getting better at reading hard historic newspapers. Surya OCR 2.5 (689M) handled 1760s Fraktur, polytonic Greek and pre-reform Russian on my test pages, layout included. Big broadsheets need full-res input: error rate 25% → under 10% huggingface.co/da…
datalab-to/surya-ocr-2.5 · Hugging Face huggingface.co
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Here at @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, we now have full abstracts up on our website for the 19 new HAVI Awards! These are interdisciplinary DH projects that are improving AI as a tool for new kinds of humanities research. Congrats to all the awardees! www.schmidtsciences.org/ha…
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Article about HAVI-funded project led by Ben Lee, Melanie Walsh (U of Washington), Kyle Deeds (Boston U), Trevor Owens (American Institute of Physics) to investigate how historical figures like James Baldwin are represented by AI & search. @schmidtsciences.bsky.social ischool.…
AI research to aid in remembering historical figures ischool.uw.edu
New article about HAVI-funded project led by Aggelos Katsaggelos, Maria Kokkori (Northwestern) & Giovanni Verri, Gloria Groom, Kim Muir (Art Institute of Chicago) to investigate hidden history of paintings. @schmidtsciences.bsky.social #dh www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/a…
A New AI Framework to Reveal the Hidden Histories of Paintings mccormick.northwestern.edu
New from @scienmag.bsky.social about this HAVI-funded project led by Chen Feng, Jing Zhang, Radu Iovita, Scott Williams (NYU) & Raiko Krauß (U of Tübingen). The team from both CS & archaeology are looking to "refit" broken fragments using AI. @schmidtsciences.bsky.social scien…
AI Joins the Puzzle Table as NYU Team Reassembles Broken Archaeological scienmag.com
New article about this HAVI-funded project led by Marcos Zampieri (GMU) and Tommi Jauhiainen (U of Helsinki). The team will apply AI and natural language processing techniques to a database of cuneiform tablets. #DH @schmidtsciences.bsky.social cec.gmu.edu/news/2026-10...
Bringing ancient Mesopotamia into the AI age cec.gmu.edu
