[Ohiodig] *External* handwritten mathematical physics course books

[Aaron O'Donovan]

You might try contacting someone at Transkribus to see if mathematical notes have ever been transcribed. It wouldn't surprise me if someone has already worked on a project like this. Since you have such a huge amount of data it would probably be easy to train a model on the kind of handwriting and layout that was used most often and then have that machine learning applied to the other hundreds of pages of writing. The models seem to be agnostic to whether what is written is a number or a letter, it figures out numerical dates easy enough.

Thanks,

Aaron M. O'Donovan | Special Collections Manager
Columbus Metropolitan Library | Local History & Genealogy
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614.849.1246 office
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Any tools or services recommended to make handwritten mathematical physics course books accessible? An emeritus professor has passed away and it was his wish to make his course materials Open Access. We will have 8 after scanning by the Physics Dept. is complete. I was sent the first scanned copy and it is 429 pages.

Thank you for your help!
Marsha


Marsha Miles, MLIS

Assistant Director for Collections & Resource Management

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Michael Schwartz Library

Cleveland State University

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