The use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the digitisation of herbarium specimen labels
Identifieur interne : 000190 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 000189; suivant : 000191The use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the digitisation of herbarium specimen labels
Auteurs : Robyn E. Drinkwater ; Robert W. N. Cubey ; Elspeth M. HastonSource :
- PhytoKeys [ 1314-2011 ] ; 2014.
Abstract
At the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) the use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to aid the digitisation process has been investigated. This was tested using a herbarium specimen digitisation process with two stages of data entry. Records were initially batch-processed to add data extracted from the OCR text prior to being sorted based on Collector and/or Country. Using images of the specimens, a team of six digitisers then added data to the specimen records. To investigate whether the data from OCR aid the digitisation process, they completed a series of trials which compared the efficiency of data entry between sorted and unsorted batches of specimens. A survey was carried out to explore the opinion of the digitisation staff to the different sorting options. In total 7,200 specimens were processed.
When compared to an unsorted, random set of specimens, those which were sorted based on data added from the OCR were quicker to digitise. Of the methods tested here, the most successful in terms of efficiency used a protocol which required entering data into a limited set of fields and where the records were filtered by Collector and Country. The survey and subsequent discussions with the digitisation staff highlighted their preference for working with sorted specimens, in which label layout, locations and handwriting are likely to be similar, and so a familiarity with the Collector or Country is rapidly established.
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DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.38.7168
PubMed: 25009435
PubMed Central: 4086207
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