Swipe card: Transcriber

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...

How HTR and KI open historical handwritten documents

The Swedish National Archives has approximately 600 million handwritten pages and only about 5 percent of this has been scanned, but this can be accelerated...

Do you have Swedish handwritten documents that you struggle to read?

The Swedish National Archives has published a demo version of a tool that interprets handwriting (HTR) and delivers it as digital and much more readable text....

Transcribus with three Norwegian models

The program called "Transkribus" was developed at the University of Innsbruck with support from the EU. The Swedish National Archives has now contributed three text recognition models that can be used by...

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...

The National Archives of Sweden automates handwriting transcription

Using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), the Swedish National Archives is now automating the deciphering of handwriting. A demo version that allows the user to search in handwriting is...

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...

Transkribus awarded EU Horizon Impact prize

The software that transcribes handwriting was today awarded the EU award for now nominated for no less than two awards. Today it became clear...

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...