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Digital Approaches to Handwritten Text Recognition in Complex Art-Historical Archives: Towards a Robust Text Model for the Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle Manuscripts

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A methodologically sound, AI-assisted framework for unlocking complex, multimodal historical archives is proposed by proposing a methodologically sound, AI-assisted framework for unlocking complex, multimodal historical archives.

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