The dashboard shows us our image, the time and date we uploaded it, and will contain a link that says “OCR予約.” All we need to do now is click the “OCR予約” link. One’s dashboard will look something like this: Clicking the second link will take you to a tab containing an image of the area of the text that you have highlighted, but clicking the other link ( KuroNet Kuzushiji Recognition Service) will take us to our personal dashboard where we can perform OCR on the image. The first link says “ KuroNet Kuzushiji Recognition Service” and the second is a URL. Once we have drawn the box it will look something like this.Īfter drawing the box, one is prompted to click on it in order to view info. This allows us to draw a rectangular box around the cursive text that we want to convert to printed script. Next we click on the square symbol in the top right hand corner of our image. The image in KuroNet Kuzushiji Recognition Viewer.
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At this stage we are also given a series of options in the top right corner including the abilities to add the image to a list, download the image, and look at copyright information etc. To navigate pages one can either click the arrows in the top left corner, or click on the Thumbnails tab to jump to a specific page.
Now the document can be seen and read within the viewer. On the National Diet Library Digital Collections Website the IIIF Manifest URI is located in the bottom left corner of the screen.ĭragging the IIIF Manifest URI into the viewer. Once one has found an image or set of images the IIIF Manifest URI or IIIF Manifest URL must be dragged and dropped into the KuroNet Kuzushiji Recognition Viewer. The Kirishitan Monogatari on the National Diet Library Digital Collections Website. Images conforming to the International Image Interoperability Framework are available through many databases and online archives, so users of KuroNet should find them easy to locate. This is important since the image that users decide to use must conform to the International Image Interoperability Framework. This version of the Kirishitan Monogatari is available via the National Diet Library Digital Collections. I imagine that the reader will already have a text in mind, but for the sake of this tutorial we will use the second volume of the 1639 version of the Kirishitan Monogatari 吉利支丹物語 due to its relation to my own research. Next we need to find an image of a document written in cursive Japanese text that we want to convert to printed text. The KuroNet Kuzushiji Recognition Viewer after signing in. Once you’ve logged in your name will appear in the top right corner of the screen. You can sign in with Google, Facebook, Twitter or Email. The KuroNet Kuzushiji Recognition Viewer/ IIIF Curation Viewer.Īfter opening the viewer one needs to log into an account. First, one needs to open the KuroNet Kuzushiji Recognition Viewer/IIIF Curation Viewer which will look something like this: Unless I am mistaken, instructions do not appear to be available in other languages, although parts of the interface can be used in English or Japanese. The instructions for KuroNet are available in Japanese, here. After trying out the software, I decided that this week I would write a brief tutorial and review of KuroNet. Of course, I knew long before I tried it that it must be something special since the post-launch hype in the worlds of both traditional and social media was immense. I often live by this philosophy in my digitally oriented work, so when KuroNet was launched I decided to wait a while before using it.
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Would this be another of the terribly ineffective, free, Japanese OCR platforms that seem to abound on the internet or would it actually work? When I was a teenager my friend’s father who was a computer engineer told me to never jump on software or OS updates as soon as they are released, but to wait a while until bugs and other such faults are worked out. It was a development that I and many others waited for in anticipation, excitement and perhaps to some extent apprehension. KuroNet is a free OCR (Optical Character Recognition) platform which allows users to convert images of documents written in cursive Japanese into printed text. The Center for Open Data in the Humanities’ KuroNet Kuzushiji Ninshiki Sābisu (KuroNetくずし字認識サービス) launched late last year.
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