Karakun @ kmuRUNDSCHAU 2/2021
The kmuRUNDSCHAU magazine sees itself as a direct communication platform between providers from the future industries and decision-makers from Swiss SMEs.
In the current issue 2 / 2021, we introduce ourselves to the magazine readers under the title “More than just bits and bytes” (to the eMag).
Using three practical examples (Carbonfuture, Covalo and Helvetia), we offer a quick overview of our services. If you also want to know what is behind Lyzium, HIBU, OpenWebStart and VOLTA and what distinguishes us from other software companies, then read the full article (German, PDF).
SwissText 2021
For the 6th time, the three-day online conference Swisstext took place from 14-16 June 2021. The conference is the meeting place for text analysis experts from Swiss business and research. It is organized by the association SwissNLP (in cooperation with the two universities FHNW and ZHAW). As regular participants, we were also involved this year with a contribution. The poster “Understanding structural information in scanned documents” shows our approach for analyzing and processing tabular information in scanned documents.
Information extraction from tables
With our HIBU-Plattform, we develop custom solutions in the areas of enterprise search and text analytics. In these projects, we often deal with scanned documents that are digitized using OCR software. Standard extraction methods work well for continuous text but generally deliver insufficient results for tables because they ignore the table layout and thus hide important information / relationships. Typical problem areas are table cells whose content breaks across multiple rows, especially cells whose content can only be interpreted using the associated column heading.
Do you have any questions about the poster or the procedure?. Dr. Holger Keibel will be happy to answer them.
Networking at an online conference? Check!
How can participants at an online conference effectively link up with interesting contacts? That was one of the questions we asked ourselves when offering the organizers of SwissText 2021 our help.
The result was a networking format in which each participant in a session was randomly sent into a virtual room together with three other people. Once there, each person had a limited amount of time for a personal introduction. Before the session automatically ended, participants could exchange contact details if interested.
Of course, such a format cannot replace face-to-face exchange on site. But within the possibilities of an online conference, it worked very well. As the feedback from the participants shows, it was worth taking part:
SwissText 2021 has just ended – and we are already looking forward to next year. Hopefully on-site – but certainly once again with active support from Karakun.
Hello Adoptium!
We love Java, we love open source and we believe in the power of the community. This conviction drives us every day.
For quite some time, we are actively supporting AdoptOpenJDK, a community-based project providing Java binaries for a large number of platforms. What has already been announced at our Developer Hub in June 2020 has now become a reality: as of today, AdoptOpenJDK is officially Eclipse Adoptium.
Karakun is founding partner alongside major companies and organisations like Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, IBM, iJUG, Microsoft, New Relic and Red Hat as well as Strategic Member of this new Eclipse Working Group.
For more information about the Eclipse Adoptium Working Group please read the official press release. We will also post some news at the Karakun Developer Hub.
