Automatic information extraction from museum specimen labels | the story behind the paper

In this episode, Methods in Ecology and Evolution author Margot Belot talks to publishing assistant Hannah about her article 'High-throughput information extraction of printed specimen labels from large-scale digitization of entomological collections using a semi-automated pipeline' Margot's article introduces a tool that can be used to automatically real the labels of museum specimens, helping to catalogue and digitise their vast collections Read the full article here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210x.70235 And a blog post about the work: https://methodsblog.com/2026/02/10/from-trowels-to-tensorflow-bridging-the-gap-between-ancient-past-and-digital-future/