German Fraktur 18th century

Model details

Creator(s)

Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Language(s)

Centuries

18th

CER on Validation Set

0.8%

Size (Nr. of Words)

823,583

Model ID

47114

About this Model

This model has been trained on 829 400 words from the „Wien[n]erisches Diarium“ / „Wiener Zeitung“ (1703-1799), which is an Austrian newspaper. The CER on the validation set is 0.8%.
The model was created within the project „Das Wien[n]erische Diarium: Digitaler Datenschatz für die geisteswissenschafttlichen Diziplinen“ (The Wien[n]erisches Diarium: A digital data treasury for the humanities) and is provided by Claudia Resch and Dario Kampkaspar. More information can be found here: https://digitarium.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/

Contact: claudia.resch@oeaw.ac.at or dario.kampkaspar@oeaw.ac.at

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German Fraktur 18th century is freely available to everyone

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