German Kurrent 16th – 18th

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German Kurrent 16th – 18th

This model has a large train (1579200 words) and test set for German Kurrent (16th -18th century). The ground truth stems from different projects and partners and is biased towards Swiss documents. It is based on documents from a variety of archives and projects. Among others State Archives of Zurich (Stillstandsprotokolle, Ratsmanuale, Findmittel) and scholarly edition projects Königsfelden und Einsiedeln (Universitäten Zürich und Bern). The CER on the validation set is 8.42%.

Model Overview

Name:
German_Kurrent_XVI-XVIII_M1
Creator:
Tobias Hodel
Model ID:
19584
Century:
16th, 17th, 18th
Languages:
German
Script:
German Kurrent
Engine:
HTR+
Material:
Handwritten
CER on validation set:
8.42 %
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This AI model was trained to automatically convert text from images of historical German Kurrent documents into editable and searchable text.