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Challenge
Historic Spanish newspapers printed over a quarter of a century presented problems for traditional OCR tools — including nonstandard fonts, dense column formatting, and page degradation.
Solution
Osiris-AI built a scalable workflow that:
- Enhanced scans and detected page regions accurately
- Applied OCR tailored to historical Spanish typefaces with ~98% accuracy
- Parsed multicolumn layouts and stitched fragmented content like hyphenated line breaks
- Enabled advanced search functions and OCR accuracy metrics
Impact
Over 100,000 pages of searchable newspaper text were produced, supporting large-scale historical research and word frequency analysis across decades of printed material.