Create custom AI models for handwriting and text recognition

Transkribus allows you to create custom AI models, specially trained to recognise the specific handwriting in your documents.

Accurate handwriting & layout recognition

No coding skills required

Powerful infrastructure

Easy training process

How it works

Prepare your training data

Before starting the training of a text recognition model, you need to prepare your Ground Truth data — images of documents that have been accurately transcribed. You can speed up the transcription process with a pre-trained public model.

Start the training

Once you have a sufficient amount of training data (20-30 pages) you can perform your first training run. Transkribus will use your training data to learn the writing in your material and create a model that can accurately transcribe it.

Use and refine

Once your model is trained, you can use it right away. In many cases, this first version is already very good. But you can improve your model by creating more Ground Truth data and using it to retrain the model.

150 000+

Registered Users

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HTR AI Models trained

50+ Million

Pages processed

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Free Public AI Models

Train a model for your material

Transkribus provides you with all the tools you need to produce the training data for your custom AI model. You can also save time by importing pre-transcribed documents as training data.

Evaluate the performance of your models

There are several tools that help you understand the error rates of your models and how it compares to other models, enabling you to find the right model for your documents.

Collaborate and share

Some things cannot be done alone. That’s why Transkribus allows you to work collaboratively on training data and share your models with colleagues or even with the whole Transkribus community.

Quickly produce training data

Instead of transcribing all the training material by hand, you can generate training data for your custom AI model more efficiently by running your documents through a pre-trained public model and then correcting the transcriptions.

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