Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)
Channel: British Library Labs
Date: 2014-06-10

British Library Labs Competition Winner for 2014.

Entry by Desmond Schmidt and Anna Gerber of the University of Queensland.

Text to Image Linking Tool (TILT)

In order to make old printed books and manuscripts accessible to a Web audience, it is essential to display the page image / facsimile of the original document next to its transcription. This allows the user to comment on the text, and to read it clearly, but because original documents are often hard to read, or have different line-breaks than text on a computer screen, it is easy to get lost trying to match up words in the document with words in the transcription. To overcome this, the team are developing semi-automatic methods to generate links that highlight corresponding parts of the page image and the text.