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February 22, 2023
Transkribus
Transkribus wasn’t developed overnight. In fact, it was the result of decades of hard work. And although different people have ...
February 17, 2023
Handwritten Text Recognition
If you regularly work with German historical documents then there are three types of German script that you are probably ...
February 6, 2023
Crowdsourcing
Citizen science, community science, crowdsourcing science, volunteer monitoring — however you want to call it, this type of scientific research ...
February 1, 2023
Events
“I want to organise a Transkribus workshop but I don’t know where to start. Could you give me some advice?” ...
January 26, 2023
HTR models
As one of the world’s largest countries, Russia is also one of the most studied. Its turbulent history and influence ...
December 21, 2022
e-learning
Historical documents can be an amazing window into the past, but if you can’t read the handwriting, they can also ...
December 16, 2022
Transkribus
Cursive handwriting has a rich history. The first people to write cursive letters were the ancient Romans, who used a ...
December 7, 2022
Community
November 2022 was a milestone month in Transkribus history. After three years as part of a European cooperative, the platform ...
November 17, 2022
Transkribus
We are thrilled to announce that yesterday, we hit 100,000 users on the Transkribus platform! Even with our years-long highly ...
August 12, 2022
Handwritten Text Recognition
Ever had trouble reading someone else’s handwriting?  Well, it may reassure you to know that it’s not only humans that ...