Success Stories

Meet some of the 50000+ users
that realised exceptional projects with Transkribus

9 months ago
How can a scrapbook full of notes, clippings or illustrations give us an insight into the social history of Latin American women writers? Looking at the scrapbook as more than ...
10 months ago
Simplicity, citizen engagement and AI-driven transcription were key factors that intrigued Olof Karsvall and the team at the Swedish National Archives when they discovered Transkribus. Olof Karsvall, Research Manager at ...
12 months ago
Have you ever sent a letter that never arrived? From 1652-1815 the British navy and privateers seized all types of documents from enemy ships, ship logs, cargo lists and even ...
1 year ago
“According to the inquisitorial rules in the past, everything had to remain secret.” To punish people accused of straying from the Christian belief, the Portuguese Inquisition conducted trials clouded in ...
1 year ago
In many cities, archives house rich collections of letters, books, diaries, minutes and other valuable artefacts. However, these sources of knowledge and information are often underused as they are either ...
1 year ago
Working with historical documents written in Ottoman Turkish has long been a difficult task. Not only is it considered a ‘dead’ script today, but from accessibility to legibility, there are ...
2 years ago
When Álvaro Cuéllar set out to transcribe a series of theatrical works from the Spanish Golden Age, he hoped he would find something interesting. But he did not expect to ...
2 years ago
The State Archives of Zurich is the central archive for the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland. They are responsible for storing and preserving documents from councils, courts, administrations, and many other ...
2 years ago
While Transkribus may be our most well-known product, it is only part of the READ-COOP eco-system. In fact, we have a range of different technologies, each designed for a different ...
2 years ago
Mathematics, computing, music, poetry: Ada Lovelace was a person of many talents. The 19th-century mathematician — and daughter of infamous Romantic poet, Lord Byron — is widely regarded as one ...
2 years ago
Some Transkribus projects are just a few pages long. Many are a few hundred or thousand pages long. But the latest Transkribus project at the National Archives of the Netherlands ...
2 years ago
If you’re a researcher in Austria, you may have heard of the prestigious START Grant. Run by the Austrian Science Fund or FWF, the grant is awarded each year to ...
2 years ago
Meet Henning Schuler. Henning is a historian specialising in modern intellectual and social history, who has just completed his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.  When Henning ...
2 years ago
Languages evolve over time: even first-year linguistics students could tell you that. But understanding how they evolve is slighty more challenging.   At the Institute of Polish Language – Polish Academy ...
3 years ago
The Fondazione Banco di Napoli preserves the Historical Archive of the Banco di Napoli, the largest complex of historical-economic documentation in the world. This enormous treasure of paper collects the ...
3 years ago
Over the last 150 years, large edition series have shaped hanseatic research. Around 1900, a group of historians had collected and brought between book covers a vast amount of material ...
3 years ago
A central goal of the research project “Mapping Medieval Vienna” is to make the Viennese land registers of the 15th century available to the public. This is because the land ...
3 years ago
Over the course of its history, the colony of New France covered large portions of North America. Its main center was in the city of Québec, which was then the ...
3 years ago
From the digitization with the ScanTent, to the use of artificial intelligence for the recognition of the handwritten forms through to the publication of the documents using read&search – with ...
3 years ago
My first encounter with Transkribus was driven by envy. In 2014 I helped to draft an unsuccessful Horizon 2020 proposal at Trinity College Dublin for a call that was won ...
4 years ago
The National Library of Finland has reprocessed almost two million historical newspaper pages with the Transkribus automatic text recognition workflow in cooperation with READ-COOP. The greatly improved recognition results convinced ...
4 years ago
In 2016 I joined the READ project for the state archives of Zurich. Within the large project, I became part of the dissemination working group and responsible for the alignment ...
4 years ago
Legal history is a research field that focuses on the evolution of legal systems, and the reasons behind the implementation of different laws. Luckily for legal historians, law is also ...
4 years ago
The Vienna City Library has already implemented three projects with Transkribus. Their first project was the Lehmann address books. All of Vienna’s main tenants from 1859 to 1942 are listed ...
4 years ago
The largest, and richest, collection of documents kept inside the Amsterdam City Archives are no doubt the Notarial Archives, starting from 1578. It spans over 30.000 volumes and after 8,6 ...
4 years ago
The aim of the Greifswald project is the complete digitization and full-text indexing of the verdict files of the Greifswald Faculty of Law, namely the statement of reasons for the ...
4 years ago
The project REPUBLIC aims to create a searchable online edition of the resolutions of the States-General of the Dutch Republic (1576-1796). This federal assembly, in which each of the seven ...
4 years ago
Digital Publications are the latest addition to the DH Lab of the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (https://www.biblhertz.it), and the goal is to to ...