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{
"processId": 47725,
"status": "FINISHED",
"pages": 1,
"content": {
"text": "Dear Sir, I hereby confirm\nthe delivery of 200 units.",
"regions": [
{
"id": "region_1",
"type": "paragraph",
"lines": [
{ "text": "Dear Sir, I hereby confirm" },
{ "text": "the delivery of 200 units." }
]
}
]
}
}Explore 300+ AI Models
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Genoese notarial contracts 1300–1550
This is a project to transcribe and train Transkribus to recognize Genoese notarial contracts enacted from 1300 to 1550.
Pirquet-Archive
The Archive contains documents, pictures, maps and family trees collected by some of our ancestors beginning in the 18th century in Belgium and Austria.
Leyenberger Papers
Historische Sammlungen Moenchengladbach
The database contains digitised content from the library of the Volksverein für das katholische Deutschland, which is housed in the Mönchengladbach City Libr...
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