Prior OCR → eScriptorium
University of Geneva
The University of Geneva established the FoNDUE project to build a local, sovereign HTR infrastructure — deliberately moving away from reliance on semi-private companies and subcontracted transcription services. Built around eScriptorium and the Kraken engine, FoNDUE gives Geneva researchers institutional control over their handwritten-text-recognition workflows and training data, and adopts the SegmOnto controlled vocabulary to standardise how document layout is described so that ground-truth data remains reusable and interoperable. A Swiss example of a university deciding that data sovereignty and open infrastructure, rather than a commercial platform, should underpin its HTR work.
Original source
FoNDUE — Une infrastructure HTR pour Genève
University of Geneva (Humanités numériques)
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