Linda Zampol D'Ortia

@lindazampol.bsky.social

Postdoctoral researcher (Ca' Foscari Venice). History of Europe-Asia relations, religions in Asia, history of emotions. https://lzdo.carrd.co https://unive.academia.edu/LindaZampolDOrtia

Dear researchers who are interested in pre-modern Japan, NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it! github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk... The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji:

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Kiyonori Nagasaki@knagasaki.bsky.social · 2y ago

Japan's National Diet Library has finally made its East Asian Classics OCR available for use on ordinary computers! This is targeted at woodblock prints, but I tried it on a copy of the Heart Sutra from BnF's Pelliot collection and found it to be passably usable! github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...