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March 22, 2026Digital humanities quarterlyOpen Access

Capturing Captions: Using AI to Identify and Analyse Image Captions in a Large Dataset of Historical Book Illustrations

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JTJulia ThomasITIrene Testini

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Overview

AI methods reveal the significance of captions in digitized historical illustrations, highlighting trends in book history and digital humanities.

Key Points

  • This research aims to explore how AI can be used to identify captions in historical book illustrations and the insights they provide.
  • Used AI methods to identify image captions in a large dataset of historical book illustrations.
  • Analyzed over a million images from 68,000 books across various subjects.
  • Identified the added value of captions for improving searchability of digital illustrations.
  • Provided insights into the semantics and significance of captions in historical contexts.

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Thomas et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69bf393dc7b3c90b18b43b34https://doi.org/10.63744/7a993yjxzfac
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