With increasing digitalization, the flow of information also becomes digital. This also leads to the establishment of “digital libraries”. For this reason, it is becoming increasingly important to make historical documents with Fraktur font digitally available online.
Scanning is only the first step – Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a key technology to digitally access historical content for people, search technologies and other analytical methods. However, good scan quality is crucial for good fracture recognition.

PDFs with OCR Recognized Text

Mindener-Kreisblatt
1856

006_MK_1856-08-09_001

Mindener-Kreisblatt
1900

234_MK_1900-10-05_001

Mindener-Tageblatt
1939

205_MT_1939-09-02_001

Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung
1899

031_IVZ_1899-03-16_001

Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung
1913

065_IVZ_1913-05-31_001

Ibbenbürener Volkszeitung
1930

149_IVZ_1930-07-01_001