via When in Manla, 10 July 2023: Filipino mathematicians have developed an OCR system to transliterate Baybayin script, preserving the ancient writing system and promoting its accessibility, with plans for a two-way translator and a mobile app. The work is based on a 2022 paper in the Philippine Journal of Science. More stories indexed below.
Filipino mathematicians have just invented a computerized method for converting entire paragraphs and even full documents written in the ancient Filipino Baybayin writing system into text that even non-native readers can easily understand. And they’re now hard at work developing a full two-way translator.
By combining mathematics and technology, scientists from the University of the Philippines – Diliman College of Science Institute of Mathematics (UPD-CS IM) have made what is likely the world’s first paragraph-level optical character recognition (OCR) system that can distinguish between entire blocks of Baybayin and Latin characters in a text image.
Source: AI-Powered Baybayin Translator Being Developed by up Mathematicians – When In Manila
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