Dutch Notarial 18th century

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Dutch Notarial 18th century

This is the first 18th Century general model created by the City Archives of Amsterdam. It is based on thousands of scans from in total 15 different notaries who worked in Amsterdam during the 18th Century. The number of trained words is 622904 and the CER is 7.50% on the validation set.

All notaries (except Van Hoorn and Van Esterwege) have 10 scans validation included (2671 scans training, 130 validation)):

Maten de Jonge (200)

Van Homrigh (127)

Zweerts (200)

Ardinois (200)

Pot (152)

Staal (300)

Van den Brink (300)

Van Esterwege (103)

Van Hoorn (58)

De Fremeri (231)

Barels de Jonge (110)

Des Pommare (110)

Van Loon (110))

Verleij (300)

Van Heel (300)

Model Overview

Name:
Dutch Notarial Model 18th Century
Creator:
City Archives of Amsterdam
Model ID:
48426
Century:
18th
Languages:
Dutch
Script:
Latin alphabet
Engine:
PyLaia
Material:
Handwritten
CER on validation set:
5.40 %
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This AI model was trained to automatically convert text from images of historical Latin alphabet documents into editable and searchable text.