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style="line-height:1.714285714">On the 10th and 11th of April
2014, the Succeed project will hold a hackathon at the
University of Alicante, whose aim is to look at improving the
state-of-the-art open-source tools for the digitisation of
textual content such as books and newspapers.</span><br>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Over the two days,
developers will work together in small groups to discuss,
roadmap and plan the future development of existing tools. Some
of the topics up for discussion are:</font></p>
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<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.714285714rem"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">How to train the <a
href="http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/wiki/TrainingTesseract3"
rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(33,117,155);outline:none">Tesseract</a> OCR
engine.</font></li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.714285714rem"><font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Creation of XSLT stylesheets for format
conversion, e.g. hOCR, PAGE, FRXML.</font></li>
<li style="margin:0px 0px 0px 1.714285714rem"> <font face="arial,
helvetica, sans-serif">Debian package generation.</font></li>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px
1.714285714rem;line-height:1.714285714;color:rgb(68,68,68)"><font
face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The hackathon provides a
unique opportunity to meet developers involved in digitisation
projects all over Europe. P<span style="line-height:1.714285714">articipation
to the event is FREE OF CHARGE, but please make sure you <a
href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-succeed-dev-workshop-hackathon-tickets-10907317079"
style="color:rgb(33,117,155);outline:none">reserve</a> your
place. Participants are also encouraged to take a look at Last
year's hackathon's <a
href="http://www.digitisation.eu/blog/1st-succeed-hackathon-kb/"
style="color:rgb(15,54,71);outline:none">outcomes</a> and <a
href="http://succeed-project.eu/wiki/index.php/Developers_workshops_%28hackathons%29"
style="color:rgb(33,117,155);outline:none">background
information</a>.</span></font></p>
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Marco BÜCHLER
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH)
Papendiek 16
37073 Göttingen (Heynehaus)
eMail : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mbuechler@e-humanities.net">mbuechler@e-humanities.net</a>
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