Latin/German Bilingual Incunabula (Reichenau)

This model is trained to recognize the Gothic typefaces found in Latin/German bilingual incunabula and early prints.

It was developed by the project Digitalisierung und Volltexterkennung der ehemals Reichenauer Inkunabeln at the Badische Landesbibliothek, which was funded by the Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg.

The Ground Truth used to train and evaluate this model is based on a collection of incunabula and post-incunabula of the former Reichenau monastery, now held at the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. In addition to excerpts from truly bilingual incunabula, the set also contains some monolingual material to improve model performance.

The transcription of the Ground Truth followed the guidelines documented at https://doi.org/10.57962/regionalia-22875 and uses a range of Unicode characters to represent Latin abbreviations.

In training, the Transkribus Print M1 model was used as a base model.

This model was created by the Badische Landesbibliothek and is published under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.