Recent Advances in Information Extraction from Historical Archival Records
Historical archives hold structured knowledge in unstructured form. This paper reviews recent advances in extracting that information — layout analysis, recognition, entity extraction and record linkage — and discusses where current methods still fall short on real archival collections.
Citation
A. Matei, T. Hallyburton, L. Hennies, C. Rass and G. A. Fink. "Recent Advances in Information Extraction from Historical Archival Records." Proc. Int. Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), Vienna, Austria, 2026.