the historical documents are the important traces of the history. Historical documents carry the information about the tradition, religion, science, literature, war strategies of the ancient times, which are very useful to understand the life and culture of the ancient civilizations. These historical documents are usually recovered from the archaeological findings. Historical documents are usua...

khoy, one of the major cities in the west azarbaijan province is known for its nature, military, border positions, proximity to the silk road, including many different cultures and overall is one of the important settlements in the area. this essay investigates khoy city’s expansion, from early islam until late qajar (fourth - fourteenth century) according to historical documents. this article ...

We present a generative probabilistic model, inspired by historical printing processes, for transcribing images of documents from the printing press era. By jointly modeling the text of the document and the noisy (but regular) process of rendering glyphs, our unsupervised system is able to decipher font structure and more accurately transcribe images into text. Overall, our system substantially...

The essential quality of information in a digital library is accessibility. Full text search is not enough for some collections, more can be done. Historical collections, for example, contain dates, and it would be useful to historians to be able to search by them. However, these dates occur anywhere within the text of historical documents, and to be searched they must be extracted from the doc...