On Digitization of Romanian Cyrillic Printings of the 17th-18th Centuries

摘要

The paper describes in details recognition of Romanian texts of the 17th-18th centuries printed in the Cyrillic script, and their conversion to the modern Latin script. The challenges are discussed, and solutions of problems are proposed. The elaborated technology and a tool pack include historical alphabets, sets of recognition patterns, and spelling dictionaries in the corresponding orthographies for ABBYY Finereader. In addition, virtual keyboards, fonts, a transliteration utility, and the user manual were developed.