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• Search Monk keyword search in handwritten collections,
  • A few search examples are given here
  • or go to the static indices. Note: all Monk indices are in a flux and continuously refreshed.
  • Line-transcription and provisional-transcription output texts

• Help the Monk Current jobs of interest to volunteers:
  • Crowdsourcing: You can help in labeling randomly selected problematic words

  • Sponsoring and crowdfunding

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• Books (documents)
  • Example of book overview with page-thumbnail images
  • Random page from the Schepenbank, city of Leuven archive
• Pages
  • Page annotation
  • Page reading
    • Gelderse rekening 1425 (wide screen needed for side by side reading)
  • Page comparison (using writer identification)
  • Page comparison (using basic page layout classification)
• Lines
  • Line annotation
  • Search keyword in line transcriptions
  • Shape-based semantic-category search (line classification)
  • Word-presence mining (detect presence of a word, without spotting it in the line: word mining)
• Words
  • Trained word search
    • Latin words, Ubbo Emmius collection
    • Medieval 1400s / Leuven (middeleeuws voorbeeld: dat, juli 2010)
    • Rekening, 1425 / Gelderland (middeleeuws voorbeeld: van, september 2010)
    • KdK 1893 testboek (voorbeeld: Groningen)
    • KdK 1897 testboek (voorbeeld: Groningen)
    • KdK 1901 testboek (voorbeeld: Groningen)
    • KdK 1901b testboek (voorbeeld: Groningen)
    • SAL Leuven Schepenbank 1421 (voorbeeld: ad)

  • Zone labeling (words, characters), detailed rectangle cutouts (Java applet)
    • Book of 1810 (experimental)
    • Captain's log of 1779 (experimental)

  • Recognition: word-zone hypotheses per line, for your verification/labeling:
    • Medieval 1400s / Leuven
    • Rekeningen 1425 / Gelderland
    • Rekeningen 1425 / Gelderland (experimentele opzet)
    • KdK 1893
    • KdK 1897
    • KdK 1901
    • KdK 1901b
    • KdK 1903
    • SAL Leuven Schepenbank 1421
• Characters
  • First-letter recognizer (multiple-classifier vote: live computing, press Reload for a new random word)

• Miscellaneous
  • Documentation
  • Nuggets
  • FAQ (Dutch)
  • FAQ (English), under construction
  • Monk word-shape codification (example Brück)
  • Quicklinks via a Monk ref: hexadecimal code
  • Monk Status
  • HUMAN Labeling Productivity (HLP) User ranking
  • Blue Book entries
  • About Monk