A Taste of Digital Scholarship — Manchu OCR & AI: From Fine-Tuned Models to Agentic Workflows

A hands-on taste of Manchu OCR and AI, tracing the journey from fine-tuned models to agentic workflows.

Session outline

Why Manchu OCR is hard: script, layout, and historical context

Fine-tuning an OCR model on Manchu materials

From static pipelines to agentic AI workflows

Live demo and hands-on exercises

Prerequisites: no prior experience with Manchu or AI required — curiosity is enough.

Bring your laptop to follow along. Part of the A Taste of Digital Scholarship series organized with the HKUST Library.

AI & NLP

Workshop