A2iA takes First Place in a Worldwide Handwriting Recognition Competition For Information Extraction from Historical Documents
A2iA announced today that its industry-leading recognition technology took first place in a worldwide competition on the indexing of images from Mexican marriage licenses, where participants submitted their automated recognition systems based on data extracted in Spanish from these historic documents. The competition was sponsored by FamilySearch and was the 2nd International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP), of the ICDAR Conference 2013 (International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition).