About OCR-related projects in FY2021
1 OCR text conversion of digitized materials in FY2021
The NDL utilized funding allocated from the Third Supplementary Budget for FY2020 to implement a project to convert almost all of the NDL’s roughly 2.47 million digitized materials into text data using OCR.
2 Development of Japanese OCR software in FY2021
The NDL utilized funding allocated from the Third Supplementary Budget for FY2020 to implement a project to develop a machine-learnable OCR software for conversion of digitized materials to Japanese text.