Faulhaber

This is the first version of a specific model for the German Gabelsberger shorthand system based on the handwriting of Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber. The training data includes several diaries handwritten by him as well as so-called supplementary sheets between 1911 and 1952 in Gabelsberger shorthand. The model was trained by Milanka Matić-Chalkitis as part of the MultiHTR project (project leader: Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus) at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the University of Freiburg (Germany). The training data was kindly provided by the project “Kritische Online-Edition der Tagebücher Michael Kardinal von Faulhabers (1911-1952)” (https://www.faulhaber-edition.de/index.html). The data may be used subject to the applicable rights of use (https://www.faulhaber-edition.de/impressum.html#lizenz). We would particularly like to thank the project collaborators Dr. theol. Philipp Gahn and Dr. theol. Michael Pilarski for their expert support and exchange. In particular, the model is suitable for the handwritten documents of Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber written in the Gabelsberger shorthand. In general, it can be used as a transcription aid model for all manuscripts written in Gabelsberger shorthand, in order to make the context accessible. The “Gabelsberger_natural” model can also be used for manuscripts written in natural Gabelsberger shorthand.