Showing posts with label optical character recognition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label optical character recognition. Show all posts

Saturday, March 4, 2017

Technology in Textual Criticism

Jacob W. Peterson has some interesting thoughts on important technological developments that have revolutionized textual criticism in From Scribe to Screen: How Technology is Changing Textual Criticism. He points out developments in multi-spectral imaging, optical character recognition, and online access to manuscripts. Many more could be added, but these are certainly some of the more revolutionary.