Comment by neom
17 days ago
She said it's around 60% there, but not helpful for her specifically as her area of research is on the families of the slave trade, and so in the document, that is actually the only thing that really matters to her. Names and places (she spends A LOT of time tracking transfer of slaves through states) - I guess I should be honest that I'm goalpost moving a bit from my original original post, it can work through some 18th english century text, but generally struggles where it matters, the details.
i’m curious what the ground truth actually names in the doc are
Caroline Timmis is the boy mother, she is married to Henry Jenkins but was married previously, the boy is James Timmis.
Looking more closely at the image, it seems that the strikeouts are what are confusing the model. It sees "Henry" and disregards "James" written above it. In a few places, the strikeouts almost look more like underlining.
Gotta be an insanely-challenging task for a program that wasn't even written with handwriting recognition in mind.
Other than the proper names, are any major details wrong?
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