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Text recognition in both ancient and cartographic documents
[article]
2013
arXiv
pre-print
This paper deals with the recognition and matching of text in both cartographic maps and ancient documents. ...
We applied fontspotting on both ancient documents and cartographic ones. ...
We so calculated the terms precision and recall for two various methods which we adopted:
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TEXT RECOGNITION IN BOTH ANCIENT AND CARTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTS We can notice also that the best rates of ...
arXiv:1308.6309v1
fatcat:d5bt46s2mjcvpmjjpvranbx6ja
Terra Incognita: Mapping the Antipodes before 1600
2009
Cartographic Perspectives
, solidly documented case that is both organizationally and stylistically well constructed. ...
Convinced of his own view, Hiatt's reasoning and documentation are uncharacteristically thin in one or two spots. ...
doi:10.14714/cp63.161
fatcat:rw4hpeeox5ffpo3un6kv2c4p2u
Bertin's map reading theory: an enlightening tool for "clearing up" concepts and analysis of old maps content
2022
Abstracts of the International Cartographic Association
Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment" (Project Number: 96594). ...
Acknowledgements The research project is supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the "1st Call for H.F.R.I. ...
for grafein (graphique), the latter word meaning in ancient Greek both the text writing and the map drawing (Dilke, 1998 ). ...
doi:10.5194/ica-abs-5-137-2022
fatcat:jjg754cuzja4zajdwh42w4yrxe
Uses and applications of georeferencing and geolocation in old cartographic and photographic document management
2018
El Profesional de la Informacion
Jesús Cascón-Katchadourian has a degree in history and a degree in documentation from the University of Granada (UGR). ...
He got a first national award for his documentation studies by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. ...
To make these as small as possible, the projections are used, although in old cartography they are unusual. ...
doi:10.3145/epi.2018.ene.19
fatcat:jj777nrpfndepomuvymf6uiste
Cartographer's experience of time in the Mercator-Hondius Atlas (1606, 1613)
2016
Approaching Religion
Firstly, the atlas reflects the sense of the past as the cartographers had to assess the information included in ancient texts in relation to modern testimonies. ...
Secondly, Hondius had to take into account the worldview provided by the explorers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ...
Britannia, like most topographic studies, consisted of both maps and texts, thus paving the way to both Mercator and Hondius. ...
doi:10.30664/ar.67582
fatcat:f6yz4nax4nfxrd2q7fz24wf6iy
Two Web-GIS Projects on Russian Historical Sources of the 15–19th Centuries
2018
Proceedings of the ICA
The second project offers the results of localization of toponyms and land parcels from various documents (15–19th cc.) connected with one region of the Russian State called Bezhetsk Upland ( ...
These results were arranged in the set of layers which may be combined by the user. ...
Acknowledgements We are grateful to Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents and personally to its director M. Ryzhenkov. Also we appreciate help of our colleagues -T. Bazarova, A. Deduk. I. ...
doi:10.5194/ica-proc-1-39-2018
fatcat:vdvnophf6zflhm2gstwesfak54
HGIS AND ARCHIVE RESEARCHES: A TOOL FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MILL CHANNEL OF CESENA (ITALY)
2016
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Using the QGIS open source platform, a Historical GIS was created, encompassing the current cartographic base and all historical maps, with their vectorized elements; each archive document was linked to ...
This simple and interactive tool offers a new approach to archive searches, as it allows reconstruction in space and time of the evolution of the ancient channel and the history of this important mill ...
The great utility of GIS in management of historical cartographic data is proved by many HGIS projects that have been developed in recent years for various purposes, at both national and urban scale ( ...
doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b5-183-2016
fatcat:muhrr6misncinlj5kjqup5l6fm
HGIS AND ARCHIVE RESEARCHES: A TOOL FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MILL CHANNEL OF CESENA (ITALY)
2016
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Using the QGIS open source platform, a Historical GIS was created, encompassing the current cartographic base and all historical maps, with their vectorized elements; each archive document was linked to ...
This simple and interactive tool offers a new approach to archive searches, as it allows reconstruction in space and time of the evolution of the ancient channel and the history of this important mill ...
The great utility of GIS in management of historical cartographic data is proved by many HGIS projects that have been developed in recent years for various purposes, at both national and urban scale ( ...
doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b5-183-2016
fatcat:jcststmdavhdhpjefguqnrhi4e
Analysis of Pre-Geodetic Maps in Search of Construction Steps Details
[chapter]
2012
Cartography - A Tool for Spatial Analysis
Acknowledgement We are grateful to the Venice National Archive, for the consultation of the map by Fabri and the map by Lorini et al., and to the Engineering Faculty Library Gian Paolo Dore of the University ...
and represent the degree of deformation recorded in the ancient document. ...
Introduction Cartographic Heritage consists in the whole amount of ancient cartographic documents (not only maps, but also atlas, planispheres, globes, ...) the history has brought us, today perceived ...
doi:10.5772/46189
fatcat:p663zrj5tbeblbvyaxxmtic574
Contested Ideologies of Space in Hispanic American Cartographic Practices: From the Abstract to the Real in Spanish and Indigenous Maps of Yucatán
2013
RACAR Revue d art canadienne
This suggests they understood how maps could document lands in abstract terms and were familiar with the use of both text and pictographs to do so. ...
by blending text and image to create an abstract signifier of the province in both Spanish and Maya terms. ...
doi:10.7202/1020792ar
fatcat:mgydtgjvqnazvgqeeln72vn3be
Analysis of the Language of the Historical Maps of Abruzzo from 1550 to 1800. Between the Objective Portrayal and the Reading of Unconventional Codes
2017
Proceedings (MDPI)
In particular, it is analyzed the geographical language on one hand, and the illustrative apparatus with the graphic techniques that enclose apparently hidden but extraordinary meanings on the other. ...
territories bathed by a imaginary creatures populated sea, that allow a double reading dense with objective meanings and a series of metaphors of fictional and surreal impact. ...
this is unchanging in time and for himself circumscribable to the already know. ...
doi:10.3390/proceedings1090908
fatcat:6ic6vp6xnjcjtdqrteaqxbjyku
Networks, Territories, and the Cartography of Ancient States
2005
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
With broad lines and dark shading, the cartographic depictions of ancient states and empires convey the impression of comprehensive political entities having firm boundaries and uniform territorial control ...
Archaeological and textual evidence suggests that ancient states are better understood through network models rather than bounded-territory models. ...
culture areas with distinct boundaries and urges the recognition of cultural trajectories that may have extenuated edges in both space and time. ...
doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.2005.00489.x
fatcat:lqbw3vn7z5c2lftssop5fk6pgu
The Facsimile Editions of El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C
2002
Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas – Anuario de Historia de America Latina
Two interesting maps in which native and Spanish cartographic elements are mixed, serve as an introduction and geographic reference. ...
Our Colegio decided to publish it in a facsimile format accompanied with an appendix containing texts about its process of restoration and scientific studies on the ámatl paper and color. ...
doi:10.7767/jbla.2002.39.1.325
fatcat:ewnqcgijwzfdzlojouitmips5e
THE DOCUMENTATION OF HISTORIC MAPS OF WORLD HERITAGE SITE CITY SUZHOU
2013
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Through the work both quantitative and qualitative, a clear vision of the evolution and characteristics of the urban structure of ancient Suzhou is achieved. ...
, this inspire as well on the cautious utilization of historical materials from ancient time in the recording, documentation work. ...
at both the north and south ends of the city). ...
doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-xl-5-w2-295-2013
fatcat:p5chwbb42zevrmin34atvyntp4
Unlocking Textual Content from Historical Maps - Potentials and Applications, Trends, and Outlooks
[chapter]
2017
Communications in Computer and Information Science
This paper presents the potentials of using historical maps in scientific research, describes the current trends and challenges in extracting and recognizing text content from historical maps, and discusses ...
Digital map processing has been an interest in the image processing and pattern recognition community since the early 80s. ...
Acknowledgements This research is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under award number IIS1564164 and in part by the University of Southern California under the Undergraduate ...
doi:10.1007/978-981-10-4859-3_11
fatcat:hl2ytvj755hjvmelznvjtdbedm
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