The Dybbuk for Yiddish Handwriting

Model details

Creator(s)

https://www.dybbuk.co/

Language(s)

Yiddish

Centuries

CER on Validation Set

4.4%

Size (Nr. of Words)

144,985

Model ID

46159

About this Model

Yiddish Handwriting model, prepared by the project team of https://www.dybbuk.co/. Ground truth data consists mainly of play manuscripts from late 19th and early 20th century written in New York and Europe. Also included are several Yiddish letters corrected by participants of Yiddish Transkribus workshop https://ingeveb.org/pedagogy/the-dybbuk-model-a-new-yiddish-handwriting-text-recognition-tool .

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The Dybbuk for Yiddish Handwriting is freely available to everyone

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