French 18th century print

Model details

Creator(s)

Entangled Histories project

Language(s)

Centuries

18th

CER on Validation Set

0.9%

Size (Nr. of Words)

38,487

Model ID

26124

About this Model

This model is based on printed texts in French (Romantype Font) that was used in Flanders (Low Countries), during the 18th century. The type of sources used for this model, are books of ordinances, which contained the norms (‘laws’) at the time. This model has been the result of one of the KB National Library of the Netherlands Researcher-in-Residence position 2019. The project was called ‘Entangled Histories’. The books used for this specific model, have been provided by the Bodleian Library Oxford (RECUEIL DES ÉDITS, DÉCLARATIONS, LETTRES-PATENTES, &c. ENREGISTRÉS
AU PARLEMENT DE FLANDRES). For more information regarding the background of the model and how to cite it, please visit: www.https://lab.kb.nl/dataset/entangled-histories-ordinances-low-countries

The model has been trained on 38 500 words and the CER on the validation set is 0.91%.

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French 18th century print is freely available to everyone

You can use this model to automatically transcribe Handwritten documents with Handwritten Text Recgnition in Transkribus.