Objectives and content: Virtual Transcription Laboratory tool offered by PSNC in a software-as-a-service model is free service which allows researchers to perform OCR and them manual correction/transcription of printed documents. The service has built-in Tesseract OCR and allows single researchers as well as research teams and volunteers to work on digital documents, extracting textual information from these documents, improving quality of this information and making it more accessible and reusable for further research. The service allows importing data in several image formats and exporting results in several formats as well.
Targeted public: Researcher, research teams and hobbyists interested in OCRing and transcribing digitized documents.