The Centre for e-Research at King's College London is recruiting a Software Developer (C++/C and Linux/Unix) to work on the OCRopodium project, which is "investigating the use of the open source OCRopus software (http://sites.google.com/site/ocropus/) for applying Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to historical and archival material" (fixed-term contract for 18 months).
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The successful applicant will be the key technical staff member for the project, and will be responsible for:
- Carrying out technical investigations into the functionality and architecture of OCRopus. As OCRopus is an actively growing open source project and thus imperfectly documented, this will in itself require an ability to understand the source code and debug the software.
- Developing and integrating software components for OCRing historical material, and enhancing existing components.
- Contributing new and enhanced components to the OCRopus open source project.
- Benchmarking and evaluation of OCRopus, in collaboration with our project partners at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB).
- Integrating OCR within broader digitisation and digital library workflows.