Convert cursive to text with Transkribus
Transcribe cursive with Transkribus
Start transcribing cursive scripts with Transkribus
How Transkribus helps you to translate cursive to text
Decipher cursive with AI-powered text recognition
Automatically recognise your cursive documents and turn them into digital text. Transkribus helps you to convert various cursive styles from different centuries.
Manually transcribe and correct automatic translations
With the transcription editor, you can manually transcribe cursive or you can correct transcription errors from the automatic transcription. The results of the automatic transcription can vary depending on the handwriting and the quality of the material.
Train your own AI text recognition models
You can also train specific text recognition models that are capable of recognising exactly the handwriting of your material
Search your cursive documents
With Transkribus, you can search your documents for names and keywords and you have also more advanced search options
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How Transkribus works
Transkribus is a software that uses artificial intelligence to “learn” how to read cursive. For this, the software first needs to be trained with a number of pages that have been manually transcribed. This so called “Ground Truth enables Transkribus to understand and read cursive. The model 'German Giant I' for instance was trained with more than 15 million words from many different hands. You can use this and other pretrained AI models to automatically recognise your cursive documents and convert them into digital text. If you are able and willing to transcribe about 50 pages by yourself, you can also train a custom AI model. Your own model is then able to recognise the exact handwriting in your specific documents.
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