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		acdha on Oct 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Library of Congress has launched a new crowd-s... Here's an example of one of the documents if you want to gauge how easy the challenge is: https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/letters-to-lincoln/1830-1839... There's a lot of academic research (see e.g. https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/) but that's in progress rather than done.

scrooched_moose on Oct 30, 2018 [–]

This one is particularly tricky:

https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/civil-war-soldiers-disabled-...

A left-handed penmanship contest for soldiers who lost their right arms and were relearning to write. Some of them are remarkably good considering, but some are barely legible.

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