Post-Processing OCR Text using Web-Scale Corpora

Jie Mei, Aminul Islam, Abidalrahman Moh'd, Yajing Wu, Evangelos E. Milios

Abstract: We introduce a (semi-)automatic OCR post-processing system that utilizes web-scale linguistic corpora in providing high-quality correction. This paper is a comprehensive system overview with the focus on the computational procedures, applied linguistic analysis, and processing optimization.