Europeana: A New Spatiotemporal Search Engine

Project Plan and Milestones

Date	Task	Completion
By Week 3	Brainstorm projects ideas. Prepare slides for initial project idea presentation.	✓
By Week 5	Discuss the differences between image analysis and text analysis in terms of related algorithms, processing toolkits, implementation difficulties and display methods. Decide to focus on text processing. Select a subset collection from the "Newspaper collection" of Europeana for our project. Check the content of "La clef du cabinet des princes de l'Europe" and roughly select 3 topics we may focus on.	✓
By Week 6	Each of us read some pages of the journal to get an overall understanding of it. We find that the accuracy of the OCR results isn't very satisfying and decide to somehow improve the OCR results before text analyzing. Request for data.	✓
By Week 7	Research in OCR methods ( improve the accuracy of letter recognition - replace letters by algorithms, others… - Found some ocr methods for Italian italics Get text by web analysis Use DeepL to translate FR to ENG, and then translate ENG to FR, finally check results Reproduce the OCR method from the literature and find that recognition has improved.	✓
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Github Repository

https://github.com/XinyiDyee/Europeana-Search-Engine