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Pottery Documentation Felt Forty Times Faster
Four open-source modules scan, ink, vectorize and lay out archaeological drawings.
Summary
Four open-source modules scan, ink, vectorize and lay out archaeological drawings.
PyPottery combines handwriting extraction, automated inking, semantic vectorization and layout generation for ceramic documentation. On 50 hand-drawn sheets containing 240 drawings from the Terramara di Montale, usability participants reported a median perceived speedup of 40 times, with a 17.5-to-120 range. The figure is user-perceived workflow acceleration, not a stopwatch guarantee, and the paper frames the suite as redistributing expert cognitive work rather than replacing archaeological judgment.
Why it matters
Four open-source modules scan, ink, vectorize and lay out archaeological drawings.
Limits and context
- The figure is user-perceived workflow acceleration, not a stopwatch guarantee, and the paper frames the suite as redistributing expert cognitive work rather than replacing archaeological judgment.
Key claims
Four open-source modules scan, ink, vectorize and lay out archaeological drawings.
Qualification: The figure is user-perceived workflow acceleration, not a stopwatch guarantee, and the paper frames the suite as redistributing expert cognitive work rather than replacing archaeological judgment.
Evidence: source-2026-10-02-015
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2610.02072arXiv · primary research
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