As part of our ongoing dedication to improving and adapting to the ever-changing needs of our users, we’re excited to provide a sneak peek i

Transkribus has come a long way since its founding days at the University of Innsbruck and remains closely connected

Transkribus Desk is where the work happens. 

We are thrilled to offer you a sneak peek into the future of Transkribus with the avai

Transkribus might be known for its ability to transcribe and enrich handwritten documents, but did you know you can also use Transkribus as OCR so

If you’re new to Transkribus, or machine learning in general, then you are also probably new to the term “Ground Truth”. In shor

If you scroll through the list of Transkribus’ public AI models, you mi

Did you know that Transkribus isn’t run by an ordinary company but by a cooperative? READ-COOP was set up in 2019 to ensure the long-term developm

You may have heard of the academic disciplines known as the humanities, but what exactly is digital humanit

Think of an archive and you might think of old, dusty basements full of disorganised boxes of papers. But in the technological age, archives are t

The majority of Transkribus models are also trained to read just one language — after all, most historical documents are written in one language.

Go to any history museum or read any history book and you’ll find that many of the stories and events revolve

By Fiona Park

Not everyone who works with history is a professional historian. From hobby genealogists to volunteers in local museums, l

Creating books in the Middle Ages was a challenge. Before the introduction of the printing press, all books were painstakingly copied out by hand

We are excited to announce the latest version of Transkribus, which includes several significant improvements to our document editor. Below are th

Transkribus wasn’t developed overnight. In fact, it was the result of decades of hard work. And although different people have contributed to Tran

If you regularly work with German historical documents then there are three types of German script that you are probably very familiar with: Frakt

Citizen science, community science, crowdsourcing science, volunteer monitoring — however you want to call it, this type of scientific research al

“I want to organise a Transkribus workshop but I don’t know where to start. Could you give me some advice?” This is a common question we get at RE

As one of the world’s largest countries, Russia is also one of the most studied. Its turbulent history and influence on world politics make it the

Historical documents can be an amazing window into the past, but if you can’t read the handwriting, they can also be frustratingly inacc

Cursive handwriting has a rich history. The first people to write cursive letters were the ancient Romans, who used a form of cursive writing call

November 2022 was a milestone month in Transkribus history. After three years as part of a European cooperative, the platform finally reached 100,

We are thrilled to announce that yesterday, we hit 100,000 users on the Transkribus platform! Even with our years-long highly motivated effort, ad

Ever had trouble reading someone else’s handwriting? 

The latest version of Transkribus Lite is here and brings a number of new features. Here are the most important new features: 

The latest addition to the long list of Transkribus public models comes from the National Archives of Norw

By Joe Nockels, University of Edinburgh

As part of his PhD research at the University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland (NLS

We are excited to launch our new “Ask Us Anything” webinar ser

The new sharing feature

It might be a small button for a scre

Many people are surprised to learn that Transkribus is not run by a regular company, but by a cooperative: READ-COOP. That means that it is our me

The Trankribus User Conference is back! This year, we are once again hosting a live event in Innsbruck, p

The new version of the nopaque software programme has just been released, now with a completely new Transkribus HTR pipeline.

After the successful introduction of Transkribus Lite 2.0, we have now integrated your valuable feedback

With the start of 2022 we hit another milestone: More than 100 institutions and private persons are now mem

We are happy to introduce a new PyLaia print model (

On the Maritime Portal there are several reports on the English archive collection of Prize Papers, documents that British privateers captured fro

Transkribus is happy to introduce new

A collaboration between the Bentham Project of the University College London and the DEEDS (Documents of Early England Data Set) Project of the Un

Help us to understand the institutional use of HTR: Joe Nockels is working on this project for his PHD (a Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Hum

Imagine you are a student who wants to dive into the personal story of one of the few famous child authors in history; or who wants to discover wh

The municipal archive of the city of Bautzen holds an extensive record of official administration from the 13th century to the present day. Counci

Already got to know one of our biggest models in Transkribus? That is the German_Kurrent_17th-18^th model by the University of

Guess who is familiar with a thousand different writers, speaks German, Lower German and Latin and has a favour for 17^th century manusc

Beyond 2022 is an exciting project – triggered by a sad accident. In 1922 the Public Record Office in Dublin burned down – and thousands of invalua

The Europäische Hansemuseum Lübeck carried out a project with school pupils where the students worked directly on the original sources of

The Hanse-cities, a trade-group from the 13^th to the 17^th century, have left huge amounts of highly valueable historical doc

A digital future for old news

Two years ago, Erika Kuijpers (Amsterdam University) in collaboration with Judith Pollman (Leiden Universi

Some of you might already have come across the word “PyLaia” in connection with Transkribus. Actually, it is one more recognition engine, which ha

In 2019 the KB National Library of the Netherlands welcomed the

We are happy to present a new public model for Italian administrative hands! It was created as a collaborative effort by Jake Dyble (Exeter/Pisa),

We would like to make you aware of the Innovation in Archival Research Prize, that is organised by the National Archives of the Netherlan

The Transkribus community keeps growing, we have passed the 40.000 users mark recently, and so does the numb

Recently an interview on the experience with Transkribus has been publicised by the Gramsci centre for the humanities and the University

Want to know, what a searching interface based on Transkribus can look like? We have two new demo videos available on that in our Youtube-channel

Many models on different languages of various epochs have been trained in Transkribus already. What we are still missing is a general model, which

This project was set up to investigate the local parish records of Devon, some of which date back to the 16^th century but the majority

We would like to inform you about an article written by Marco Roling, which has been published in March 2020 and is dedicated to experiments about

In the article with the title “Automated Transcription of Handwritten Text: READ and TRANSKRIBUS (An Experiment with Transcribing Letters of

We from the Transkribus-team keep noticing interest amongst ambitioned users of Transkribus in giving Transkribus-workshops and this way share the

This is what comes out, when two Transkribus power user archives, namely the Amsterdam City Archives and the National Archives of the Netherlands

The second Transkribus User Conference took place at the Technical University Vienna on 8-9 November 2018.  Around 120 attendees shared their expe

The first Transkribus User Conference took place at the 

Our 3rd Transkribus User Conference will take place at the University of Innsbruck on 6-7 February 2020. Information will be shared about our rece

We are happy to report about the Scanathon, which took place at the University of Greifswald as part of their open house day on Saturday, 7th of Ma

On 6-7 February 2020 the third Transkribus User Conference took place at the Faculty of Catholic Theology in Innsbruck. 160 Transkribus users made

From the 1930s until 1953 one veteran of the Irish Revolution (1912-23), Ernie O’Malley, interviewed over 450 of his former comrades about their ex

We are happy to present one of our public models, which is the “Noscemus GM v1”-model released by Stefan Zathammer as part of the Innsbruck based

We are excited to announce that new models had been made available to the Transkribus crowd recently. Getting closer to our goal of being a platfor

The READ-COOP SCE with limited liability is now formally established! Under the identification number FN 520187g it is registered in the Austrian c

The Transkribus team collaborates with the Pattern Recognition team of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg (also member of READ-COOP SCE) and the coll

Dr. Dirk Alvermann of the University Archive Greifswald is one of the pioneers of Transkribus. He already started working with the first version of

A general paper about Transkribus was published in the Journal of Documentation. 

On 27^th of August Barbara Denicolò of the Transkribus Team Innsbruck held a workshop at the summer school “Digital Methods in Huma

The SS Great Britain trust accepted the challenge of deciphering Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s handwriting. Without technical help this had been a chal

The digitisation team around Liesbeth Keyser from the National Archives in the Netherlands is workin

Prof. Achim Rabus from the University of Freiburg has release

Thanks to the Library Labs of the Austrian National Library and the

We are excited about our next Transkribus User Conference, which this time will take place in Innsbruck. Preparations are in full swing and the dat

Members of the Zurich University compared two versions of the ABBYY FineReader (FineReader XIX and FineReader Server 11) OCR (Optical Character Rec

On 1st of July 2019 the READ project will turn into a European Cooperative Society (SCE). READ-COOP will serve as the basis for sustaining and furt

In May, Barbara Denicolò from the Transkribus-Team Innsbruck and Elena Mühlbauer from the Diözesanarchiv in Passau in the name of READ travelled to

In the past 3 years research groups and archives from all over Europe were working on Handwritten Text Recognition for historical documents. Result

Recently our new HTR+ was tested on different styles of Church Slavonic handwritings by Achim Rabus, who is holding the Chair of Slavic Linguistics

Transkribus now helps to produce a digital encyclopaedia, containing articles regarding sociability during the Age of British enlightenment. This s

On 4 April 2019 Transkribus users from the Netherlands and Belgium gathered under cloudy skies in The Hague to discuss the possibility of forming a

We are proud to be part of a successful project carried out by the New Zealand Alpine Club and the Universi

When we work together, there’s so much we can achieve!

Our latest milestone has put a big smile on our faces – there are now over 20,000 registered users of our

The Royal College of Physicians has been devoted to advancing

Another day, another news feature for Transkribus! il Fatt

After the tumult of World War One, the First Austrian Republic was declared in September 1919. Nearly 100 years later, the Austrian Parliamentary D

We’re sure many people know how challenging it can be to read historical manuscripts. Our new e-learning website,

Our new Facebook page can he

At the READ project, we believe in using cutting-edge technology to help people study a rich variety of historical documents.

The

Our Transkribus platform for Handwritten Text Recogniti

With thousands of Transkribus users working all over th

The READ consortium together with several other institutions is currently preparing the foundation of a legal entity (working titl

Günter Mühlberger, coordinat

We have another new How to Guide for users of our Transkrib

Prototypes of the ScanTent, our device for digitising documents wit

We’re celebrating the New Year with the release of several video tutorials designed to help new users navigate our

What’s your name?

Johanna Walcher

At the READ project we are committed to sharing data and working collaboratively to improve the recognition of handwritten historical documents.

Segmentation is a crucial stage of working with Handwritten Text Recognition in our

Yes, you read that correctly – our Transkribus pl

Many new users are registering for a Transkribus accoun

The READ project is a big proponent of digitisation on demand using smartphones.

A typical mobile phone camera can capture relatively high-q

In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, there was a significant surge of thousands of theatrical productions. This period has become known as

The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple is one of four Inns of Court: prestigious professional a

by Annemieke Romein, University of Ghent

(Dutc

On 8-9 November 2018, Vienna was overtaken by more than 100

We know that handwritten historical documents are often complex in their structure and content.

by Sergio Riolo, il Cartastorie 

Back in April we appealed for he

Drumroll please!  Transkribus now has more than 15,000 users!  Our users are based mainly in Europe but also extend into Africa, Australia, America

Check us out – we’re on TV again!  EuroNews TV, a

We love hearing what our users have been getting up to with our

The Bentham Project has been experimenting with the Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) of Bentham’s manuscripts for the past five years, first as a

Maybe you’ve just discovered Transkribus and are feeling a bit overwhelmed?  Our updated video should help you get to grips with working with

We can all agree that it’s nice to share – and in the READ project, sharing data brings direct benefits for the Handwritten Text Recogn

Join us for an event in the Croatian capital of Zagreb on Thursday 18th October.

The event is hosted by

Digitising historical documents? There’s an app for that!

Join us in Vienna for our next Scanathon event, hosted by the

Registration for the 2018 Transkribus User Conference in Vienna is now open!

by David Brown and Stephen Crane, Trinity College Dublin

On 30 June 1922, at the outset of the Irish Civil War, a

Stefan Karcher, a graduate student at Heidelberg University has

William Hey (1736 – 1819) was an English surgeon who worked at Leeds General Infirmary, served as mayor of Leeds and as president of the Leed

Nicoline van der Sijs is p

Record books, registers, accounts – these are just a few of the hundreds of archival documents that can be laid out in tables and forms.  Alt

Transkribus users may like to join a new user-led Facebook group set up by

A quick announcement about some new German language resources for users of our

The Gender History research group at the University of Jena (Thuringia, Germany) have been experimenting with Transkribus as part of a

Gothic scripts from the Middle Ages can be found in archives and libraries all over Europe.  The script was widely used for hundreds of years, and

The Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology research gr

In exciting news, Transkribus has started to tackle the papers of the seminal French philosopher Michel Foucault.

The team at the

On Friday 8 June 2018 there was a flurry of READ activity in London, Helsinki and Zurich as we held our first ever international Scanathon!  We dec

Congratulations go to the University Library of Belgrade (on

Registration is now open for an upcoming libraries conference where you’ll be able to hear from some of the READ project partners and see how

‘Transkribus deciphers your Grandma’s handwriting’ declared the headline of a

What’s your name?

Maria Kallio

The Time Machine is a pioneering digital humanities initiative which

Our Transkribus platform offers access to cutting-edge

The READ project is organising an exciting international Scanathon on Friday 8 June 2018, with parallel events taking place in Finland, Switzerland

We’ve got some terrific results to report relating to an interesting collection of documents held at the

MarineLives is a digital volunteering project,

We’re always delighted to hear updates from Transkribus users about their progress!

The 13th edition of the International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS) is taking place at the TU Wien.
From Wednesday, April 25th

Information laid out in tables often seems very neat to the human eye but computers can struggle to process the tables that appear commonly in hist

Transkribus can automatically produce transcripts of historical material with very impressive results, where 90-95% of characters in a given transc

One of the major workshops for computer scientists working in the fields of Document Analysis will take place in Vienna on 24-27 April 2018.

Automated Text Recognition technology is fast-paced and improving all the time.  The

If you want to know more detail about the research, services and network building being undertaken by the READ project, our

The first Transkribus User Conference<

There are now thousands of Transkribus users working wi

If you are in London on 21 March, come along to a free workshop at the

The Bentham Project at University College London, whic

The Linnean Society of London has recently produced some promising

We’ve given the Transkribus How to Guides a reboot!  New and improved guidelines are here to help Transkribus users achieve the automated tra

An exciting new project that will work intensively with Transkribus has just launched, thanks to funding from the

For anyone who has ever struggled to decipher a word in a manuscript, help is at hand!  The first version of our new e-learning app,

The British Library, one of the READ project’s

We had lots of interest in our first T

It’s hard to believe it but we’ve entered the third year of the READ project!  Like most of the world, we’re using January as an

Transkribus and the READ project have been featured on national radio in Serbia!  Our partnership with the

We’re here with details of some of the latest institutions who have joined the READ project network by signing a Memorandum of Understanding

We wanted to round off 2017 by celebrating some fantastic advances in the Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Layout analysis of historical docu

We are thrilled to report that Transkribus has been featured in a leaflet published by the

The Alpine city of Innsbruck is at the heart of the READ project – the READ project coordinator, Günter Mühlberger, and his team of Transkrib

What’s your name?

Tobias Strauß.

The Journal of Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL)

What is a text? A simple question with a not so simple answer. Coming from the scholarly editing tradition,

The first Transkribus User Conference was an interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking few days.  Around 80 users, mostly (although not all!) fr

One of the READ project partners, the National Centre for Scientific Research (NCSR) ‘Demokritos’ recently participated in the 2017

The READ project is spreading its wings with some exciting new partnerships in Europe and beyond!

On our

Ah, Vienna!  The READ project team is getting excited for the first

Tobias Hodel from the State

What’s your name?

Philip Schofield.

Viewers of the Finnish TV channel MTV 3 have been given an insig

The READ project made one of its first forays across the Atlantic last week to attend the

The wait is over – registration for the

The National Archives of Finland has started working wit

The Transkribus platform for the transcription and reco

The Computer Vision Lab at Technical University Vienna are

The International Medieval Congress is one of

One of the READ project partners is helping to make keyword searching of handwritten documents a real possibility!  The

It’s time to hear about some remarkable new results with Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology – this time from the

The excitement is building – it’s nearly time for this year’s

Last week’s issue of Nature carried a

If you’re headed to the International Medieval Congress this year, you might be interested to know that we are running a parallel

The Archivio Storico Ricordi is one of the most important p

Two partners in the READ project network have now successfully trained a new model to recognise Gothic handwriting!  The

We’re delighted to announce that we will be organising a dedicated conference for Transkribus users this November.

At the READ project, we are dedicated to using new technologies to make historical documents more accessible.  Our latest forthcoming tool is an im

We are already getting excited for one of Europe’s biggest history conferences!  The

The DATeCH International Conference is fast approaching on 1-

It was a sunny Tuesday morning when the READ project made it to the

What’s your name?

Sofia Ares Oliveira.

Where do you work?

HumaReC is a new research platform developed by the

Are you interested in using Transkribus for Handwritten Text Recognition?  If you have a couple of minutes, you can get an overview of the process

We are very happy to welcome The British Library into the READ project n

What’s your name?

Eva Lang.

The READ project visited Sweden last week for the second Digital Humanities

In February 2017, the READ project was present at the DHd 2017 in Be

What’s your name?

Hervé Déjean.

Where do you work?

More and more archival holdings are being digitised.  But there are still thousands of document collections that exist only in manuscript form.  Th

The Georgian Papers Programme is an exciting collaborat

For computer scientists, competitions are one of the most effective means of improving their research and technology.  With this in mind, the READ

The READ project receives funding from the Europea

The Bentham Project at University College London and <

Xerox Research Centre Europe is one of the READ research partner

Chiara Petrolini, a post-doctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute in Rome (

January is always a time for reflection and at the READ project, we have a lot to reflect on!  We’ve been busy over the past 12 months in our

On 10 October 2016, we asked researchers, archivists and curators to discuss ‘What should be in your Digital Toolbox?’ at our conferenc

What’s your name?

Max Bryan.

Where do you work?

The De

Some people are horrified by the thought of writing notes on the pages of books.  But for the English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806 – 18

The READ project network continues to expand, as we welcome a new

What’s your name?

Tobias Hodel.

<

We are excited to report that the READ project will be presenting a panel at the next

The READ project is working to make handwritten historical collections more accessible through the development and application of Handwritten Text

What’s your name?

Joan Andreu Sánchez

Lights, camera action!  Transkribus now has a

The 3rd Digital Humanities Austria Conference</

We thought it was about time that we got to know the people working on the READ project a little better!  We are armed with a list of questions tha

What is it like to work with Transkribus as a user?  Melina Jander from the Institute of Com

One of the oldest University libraries in Germany is working with some of the newest technology!  

We can now say that the READ project has trended on Twitter!  On 10 October 2016, there was much interest in our ‘Digital Toolbox’ conf

On 27 September 2016, the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität (FSU) Jena hosted a workshop on ‘

Staatsarchiv Zürich

Passau Diocesan Archives took on the task of host

This year’s DocEng symposium was organised by one

Demystifying Digitisation: A Hands-On Master Class in Text Digitisation will take place at the University of Antwerp from 29 to 30 September 2016.

The READ project now has a new partner which will investigate how Transkribus can be used in digital scholarly editing.

The 

Are you new to Transkribus and wondering how it all works?  We have prepared a short guide that should help!

What should be in your Digital Toolbox?  Find out at our upcoming conference at

National Archives Finland will be part of an exciting ev

The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities-Belgium (D

The Linnean Society of London (one of READ’s 

The partners in the READ project will come together for an all-staff meeting in Passau, Germany from 20-22 September 2016.  The

We are happy to report that new ‘How to’ guides are now available to help those who want to work with Transkribus.

If you visit

The READ project is featured in the

The National Archives of Finland is committed to promoti

If you want to find out more about READ, you can now watch the READ partners live in action!  Videos of presentations made at the 

At the beginning of May, the READ partners met together in sunny Valencia!  The Universitat Politècnica de València hosted a technical meeting wher

The READ project was launched in January 2016 at the

University College London presented at a conference at the Archives

An introduction to the READ project, as well as to one of the core technologies behind it, will be given by Welf Wustlich and Günter Mühlberger at

Many users have requested a German user guide for Transkribus.  And now it is here!  Thanks to Barbara Denicolo, the Transkribus wiki sites have be

In January 2016, more than 150 people gathered at the Hessian State A

Following

We are delighted to an

A