News

January 4, 2019
Meet the READ partners, News, Transkribus
What’s your name? Johanna Walcher                     Where do you work? The ...
December 17, 2018
Competitions, Data sets, News
At the READ project we are committed to sharing data and working collaboratively to improve the recognition of handwritten historical ...
December 12, 2018
How to Guides, News, Transkribus, Videos
Segmentation is a crucial stage of working with Handwritten Text Recognition in our Transkribus platform.  Digitised images of historical documents ...
December 6, 2018
HTR models, News, Success stories, Transkribus
Yes, you read that correctly – our Transkribus platform can indeed recognise printed Indian texts. Conventional OCR software usually struggles ...
December 3, 2018
How to Guides, News, Transkribus
Many new users are registering for a Transkribus account every day and our How to Guides are there to help ...
November 30, 2018
DocScan, News, Transkribus
The READ project is a big proponent of digitisation on demand using smartphones. A typical mobile phone camera can capture ...
November 28, 2018
HTR models, Keyword Spotting, News, Success stories
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, there was a significant surge of thousands of theatrical productions. This period has become known ...
November 23, 2018
HTR models, News, Success stories, Transkribus
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple is one of four Inns of Court: prestigious professional associations for barristers working ...
November 20, 2018
HTR models, News, Transkribus, Working groups
by Annemieke Romein, University of Ghent (Dutch language version below) Throughout the Early Modern era much was written in the ...
November 16, 2018
Crowdsourcing, DocScan, Events, HTR models, Keyword Spotting, News, Transkribus, Transkribus User Conference
On 8-9 November 2018, Vienna was overtaken by more than 100 Transkribus users keen to share their experiences and learn ...