It’s so bizarre to see the perfectly readable italic alongside the nearly unreadable (to my modern eyes) civilité in a book that’s nearly 500 years old. Here in Norway, gothic scripts and...
It’s so bizarre to see the perfectly readable italic alongside the nearly unreadable (to my modern eyes) civilité in a book that’s nearly 500 years old.
Here in Norway, gothic scripts and typefaces were in common use up until around 1900, which presents such a barrier to entry that libraries and collections of old books and documents have to hire people to transcribe them, even though the language itself is readable, with increasing difficulty, at least 400-500 years into the past without special training.
They are having simelar problems in Japan, where old hand-written documents are written with a cursive style of the language. IIRC one of the historical organizations ended up using ML to try and...
They are having simelar problems in Japan, where old hand-written documents are written with a cursive style of the language. IIRC one of the historical organizations ended up using ML to try and recognize the characters because they are so incredibly different from modern Japanese.
It’s so bizarre to see the perfectly readable italic alongside the nearly unreadable (to my modern eyes) civilité in a book that’s nearly 500 years old.
Here in Norway, gothic scripts and typefaces were in common use up until around 1900, which presents such a barrier to entry that libraries and collections of old books and documents have to hire people to transcribe them, even though the language itself is readable, with increasing difficulty, at least 400-500 years into the past without special training.
They are having simelar problems in Japan, where old hand-written documents are written with a cursive style of the language. IIRC one of the historical organizations ended up using ML to try and recognize the characters because they are so incredibly different from modern Japanese.