Engraving card: Handwriting
How to interpret old handwriting?
What often prevents many people from finding out more about their own family history is old handwriting. Sometimes such writing can...
How to decipher illegible handwriting
Sitting with a letter written by a relative many years ago is always a very special feeling. However, it is not...
This program transcribes handwritten documents
A not unknown problem when deciphering older family history sources is the handwriting. Both the handwriting and the type of script, such as Gothic, can be enough to...
The difficult handwriting
It can be challenging to read old handwriting in historical documents, especially if the handwriting is difficult to interpret or if the document is written...
Transkribus is getting «smarter»
The handwriting recognition tool can now base its recognition on 75 different models, including 4 Danish and 4 Swedish. Still, no one has trained...
Transkribus is being commercialized
The world's leading handwriting recognition software is now being commercialized. The developers have been forced to take this step, as the project is no longer...
Now it is possible to search modern handwritten documents
Until now, handwritten documents have had to be transcribed in order to search them. We are now working on a solution that can...
Using Transkribus to interpret the handwriting of a famous British engineer
The SS Great Britain Foundation, named after an advanced steamship, took on the challenge of interpreting the handwriting of the engineer who designed...
Now Transkribus can decipher even more manuscripts
In April this year, Slekt1 reported on a new computer program called Transkribus that could read handwritten documents and turn them into searchable "data" text....
