Keep, Change or Delete? Setting up a Low Resource OCR Post-correction Framework for a Digitized Old Finnish Newspaper Collection

There has been a huge interest in digitization of both hand-written and printed historical material in the last 10–15 years and most probably this interest will only increase in the ongoing Digital Humanities era. As a result of the interest we have lots of digital historical document collections available and will have more of them in the future.

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