09-07-2021, 05:31 PM
If a computer were given all images for each instance of either EVA-a or EVA-o (or EVA-c?) in the manuscript and then tasked with splitting them into 2 sets the EVA-a ones and EVA-o ones it might fair quite well.
I was struck by the standard of image recognition software now available when looking at websites to identify plants and this kind of thing does not seem unrealistic, though implementing software to transcribe the whole text sounds like a lot of work, hopefully in the future there will be more tools to do that.
I have a strong suspicion that a computer could probably do a much better job than a human of transcribing the Voynich as it seems likely that the human transcriptions are not very good. Obviously the quality of transcriptions is vital to Voynich research.
I was struck by the standard of image recognition software now available when looking at websites to identify plants and this kind of thing does not seem unrealistic, though implementing software to transcribe the whole text sounds like a lot of work, hopefully in the future there will be more tools to do that.
I have a strong suspicion that a computer could probably do a much better job than a human of transcribing the Voynich as it seems likely that the human transcriptions are not very good. Obviously the quality of transcriptions is vital to Voynich research.