News

January 4, 2018
Data sets, News, Transkribus
We’re here with details of some of the latest institutions who have joined the READ project network by signing a ...
December 21, 2017
Competitions, Data sets, Events, HTR models, News, Success stories
We wanted to round off 2017 by celebrating some fantastic advances in the Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Layout analysis ...
December 18, 2017
HTR models, Transkribus
We are thrilled to report that Transkribus has been featured in a leaflet published by the National Archives in the ...
December 13, 2017
Events, Transkribus
The Alpine city of Innsbruck is at the heart of the READ project – the READ project coordinator, Günter Mühlberger, and ...
December 8, 2017
Meet the READ partners
What’s your name? Tobias Strauß.               Where do you work? CITlab, Institute for Mathematics, ...
November 27, 2017
Data sets, HTR models, News, Publications
The Journal of Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL) is calling for contributions for a forthcoming special issue on automatic ...
November 20, 2017
HTR models, News, Transkribus
What is a text? A simple question with a not so simple answer. Coming from the scholarly editing tradition, Patrick ...
November 14, 2017
Events, News, Transkribus, Transkribus User Conference
The first Transkribus User Conference was an interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking few days.  Around 80 users, mostly (although not all!) ...
October 23, 2017
Events, Keyword Spotting
One of the READ project partners, the National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) ‘Demokritos’ recently participated in the 2017 European ...
October 18, 2017
News, Transkribus
The READ project is spreading its wings with some exciting new partnerships in Europe and beyond! On our Network page, ...