Resources for Japan Scholars: Kuronet Character Recognition Platform
Kuronet Character recognition Platform
Created by researchers at Japan’s Centre for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH), KuroNet helps users to decipher historical texts written in classical Japanese script. It uses artificial intelligence to machine-read images of historical texts uploaded by users and convert them into contemporary Japanese. The model was trained on an extensive dataset compiled by CODH which contains over 4000 character classes and a million character images from 44 books printed in the Edo period (around the 17th to 19th centuries).
KuroNet (Japanese only)
See instructions for using KuroNet (Japanese only)
Read an article in The Gradient magazine on CODH’s work in this area
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Main image: Sourced from Centre for Open Data in the Humanities’ Kuzushiji Dataset (Source)
