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# + Finding patterns in eighteenth-century weddings - new blog from Xerox

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February 1, 2017

[Xerox Research Centre Europe](http://www.xrce.xerox.com/) is one of the READ research partners, with responsibility for Document Understanding.  Document Understanding is a crucial part of the process of training computers to recognise historical documents, as [Hervé Déjean](http://www.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/People/Herve-Dejean) from the Xerox team explains in [this blog](http://www.xrce.xerox.com/Blog/Document-Analysis-and-Layout-Using-Sequential-Pattern-Mining-Techniques).

Document Understanding involves analysing the layout of a document in order to extract human understandable information about its content. Hervé’s blog presents a useful overview of the concept and offers specific details about how this method can be applied to historical documents.

[![](https://blog.transkribus.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/M_Freyung_012_0004-813x1024-1.jpg?width=720&height=907&name=M_Freyung_012_0004-813x1024-1.jpg) ![](https://blog.transkribus.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/M_Freyung_012_0004-813x1024-1.jpg?width=720&height=907&name=M_Freyung_012_0004-813x1024-1.jpg) ](https://blog.transkribus.org/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/M_Freyung_012_0004-1.jpg?hsLang=en)

 Image from Passau Diocesan Archives

Hervé describes how he has been using Sequential Pattern Mining Techniques on eighteenth-century wedding registers provided by [Passau Diocesan Archives](http://www.bistum-passau.de/bistum/archiv), another partner in the READ project.  Document Understanding helps to ensure that we can group information from a document into a meaningful sequence – in this case, ensuring the right groom is matched with the right bride on the right day!

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