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The paper introduces software capable of indexing and searching large archives of scanned historical documents. The system capabilities are demonstrated on the collection containing documents from the archives of the post-Soviet security services. The backend of the system was designed with a focus on flexibility (it is actually already being used for other related tasks) and scalability to larger volumes of data. The graphical user interface design has been consulted with historians interested in using the archived documents and was developed in several iterations, gradually including the changes induced both by the user’s requests and by our improving knowledge about the nature of the processed data.
The work described herein has been supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic project LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ and by the grant of the University of West Bohemia, project No. SGS-2022-017.
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Bulín, M., Švec, J., Ircing, P. (2023). The System for Efficient Indexing and Search in the Large Archives of Scanned Historical Documents. In: Kamps, J., et al. Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13982. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28241-6_15
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