German Fraktur 18th-20th century

Free Public AI Model for Handwritten Text Recognition with Transkribus

German Fraktur 18th-20th century

The model is based on 167 title pages from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) covering the years 1780 to 1940. About 273 400 words had been trained for this model and the CER on the validation set is 0.50% (every 10th page has been taken as validation set). The model is provided by the Computational Linguistics Group (Simon Clematide, Philip Ströbel) from the University of Zurich within the framework of the Impresso project. https://impresso-project.ch/

Model Overview

Name:
NZZ Gold Standard M1+
Creator:
University of Zurich
Model ID:
49007
Century:
18th, 19th, 20th
Languages:
German
Script:
Fraktur
Engine:
PyLaia
Material:
Print
CER on validation set:
0.50 %
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This AI model was trained to automatically convert text from images of historical Fraktur documents into editable and searchable text.