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How the University of Helsinki teaches Transkribus to students
Text recognition and AI are quickly becoming essential tools for historians, offering powerful ways to study, process, and access huge collections of archival material. To make sure the next...
Unlocking Sakya texts: Creating a workflow for cataloguing Tibetan manuscripts
Tibetan is one of the world’s major literary languages, with vast collections of philosophical, religious, historical, grammatical, and medical texts written in the language. It is also the language...
Charting new waters: How 3 projects opened up maritime archives with AI transcription
Maritime history is a field that explores humanity's relationship with the oceans, seas, and waterways of the world. While ships and naval battles are the focus of some maritime historians, others...
Reading the unreadable: How 4 projects deciphered early modern documents with Transkribus
The early modern period marks the transition from the medieval world to the industrialised modern era. It laid the groundwork for many of today's societal and economic structures, such as...
Transcribing Ancient Greek with Transkribus: 3 Case Studies
Of all the world’s ancient cultures, it is perhaps Ancient Greece that has had the most enduring impact on Western civilisation. From philosophy and politics to drama and science, the texts produced...
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What are Super Models and how do they work?
The Text Titan, the English Elder, the Dutch Dean: Super Models are one of the most important developments in Transkribus. Why? Because Super Models produce more accurate transcriptions of diverse...
3 Archives that unlocked history with Transkribus
How the 'Material Culture of Wills' project transcribed 25,000 wills with Transkribus
What did people in early modern England think about their possessions? Which objects held the most significance in their lives? It is these questions and more that the Material Culture of Wills:...
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How to digitise newspapers with Transkribus
Historical newspapers are valuable resources for anyone looking to understand the past. They offer a day-by-day account of life, capturing everything from major political shifts to local...
Bringing AI back to the community: The Transkribus vision for 2026
The past few years have been defined by an unprecedented AI boom. Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Gemini and ChatGPT have amazed us with their ability to predict text and generate transcriptions...
How the University of Helsinki teaches Transkribus to students
Text recognition and AI are quickly becoming essential tools for historians, offering powerful ways to study, process, and access huge collections of archival material. To make sure the next...
How to read Latin manuscripts with AI
Latin, the language that connected Europe for 2,000 years, is still key to studying history, law, and science. Even though the language itself is well-known, the numerous scripts used to write it...
How the German Archives for Diaries preserve personal history for future generations
The German Archives for Diaries (Deutsches Tagebucharchiv, DTA) in Emmendingen has one core mission: Collecting and archiving autobiographical records and making them accessible for academic and...
Melissa Terras on why cooperatives are the future of AI
Transkribus is run not by a company, but by a cooperative: READ-COOP. And according to board member Melissa Terras, it might be the only AI cooperative in existence.
Unlocking Sakya texts: Creating a workflow for cataloguing Tibetan manuscripts
Tibetan is one of the world’s major literary languages, with vast collections of philosophical, religious, historical, grammatical, and medical texts written in the language. It is also the language...
Is it worth training a model on Transkribus?
When you start a project in Transkribus, one of the key decisions you have to make is whether you want to use a public model to transcribe your documents, or invest time training a custom model for...
Need to transcribe handwritten Hebrew or Yiddish documents? These AI models could help.
Across the world, archives and libraries preserve large collections of Hebrew and Yiddish documents. For many researchers, these materials—covering everything from communal ledgers to personal...
3 Historical documents that create more mysteries than they solve
Old letters and manuscripts are important sources for historians. They offer a direct window into the past, showing us everything from the private thoughts of world leaders to the daily life of an...
How to train a model in Transkribus
Can AI read the Arabic script?
The Arabic script is one of the most widely used writing systems in the world. For over 1,500 years, it has been used to write not only the Arabic language but also a host of others across Asia,...