Convert handwritten and printed documents into digital text
Transkribus uses AI-powered handwriting and text recognition technology to decipher both handwritten historical documents and printed texts.
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Recognise any kind of writing
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Beat regular OCR
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Recognise handwritten, typewritten, and printed documents
Transkribus isn't only for handwritten texts, but printed ones too. Even printed material that has been poorly stored or scanned, including typewritten documents, can all be transcribed with ten times the accuracy of conventional optical character recognition (OCR) systems,
Save time and resources with public AI models
Use a public AI model, trained by the Transkribus community, to transcribe a large amount of documents in a small amount of time. Alternatively, take one as a starting point for your own custom AI model.
Process large amounts of documents
Transkribus enables you to work effortlessly with collections of any size, from a few pages to entire archives. Once inaccessible documents can now be read, searched, and prepared for research, data analysis, or publishing.
Start unlocking the past with Transkribus
Leverage the power of Transkribus to get the most out of your historical documents.