Danish Gothic handwriting 19th century

Model details

Creator(s)

Aarhus City Archives

Language(s)

Danish

Centuries

19th

CER on Validation Set

6.7%

Size (Nr. of Words)

984,735

Model ID

51398

About this Model

Model for 19th century Danish Gothic handwriting.

The material consists of various sources older than 1875.
Some material consists of late 18th century and early 19th century handwriting provided by Associate Professor Johan Heinsen.
The rest of the training material consists of Parish protocols from Aarhus Stadsarkiv, NæstvedArkiverne, Gentofte Lokalarkiv and Ry Lokalarkiv through the project RETRO.
More info can be found on retrodigitalisering.dk.

This model is trained by the archivists Kristian Pindstrup, Mia Gulvad Jørgensen and Anette Larner at Aarhus City Archives.

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