Translate Sütterlin script with Transkribus
Transkribus reads Kurrent, Sütterlin and modern German manuscripts for you.
Transcribing Sütterlin script with Transkribus
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How Transkribus helps you to convert Kurrent, Sütterlin, Fraktur or Antiqua into digital text
Decode Sütterlin with AI-supported text recognition
Automatically recognise your Sütterlin documents and convert them into digital text. Transkribus helps you to convert Kurrent, Sütterlin and Fraktur scripts from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. There are a number of publicly available artificial intelligence models that you can use.
Manual transcription and correction of automatic translations
You can use the transcription editor to manually transcribe Sütterlin script or correct transcription errors in the automatic transcription. The results of the automatic transcription may vary depending on the handwriting and the quality of the material.
Train your own AI text recognition models
You can also train special text recognition models that are able to accurately recognise the handwriting of your material.
Search in your Sütterlin documents
With Transkribus you can search your documents by name and keyword and you also have advanced search options
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How Transkribus works
Transkribus is software that uses artificial intelligence to learn how to read Sütterlin script. To do this, the software first has to be trained with a series of pages that have been transcribed manually. This so-called "Ground Truth" enables Transkribus to understand and read the Sütterlin script.
The German Giant I model, for example, has been trained with more than 15 million words from many different hands. You can use this and other pre-trained AI models to automatically recognise the handwritten text in your Kurrent, Sütterlin or Fraktur documents and convert it into digital text.
If you are able and willing to transcribe around 50 pages yourself, you can also train your own AI model. Your own model will then be able to recognise the exact handwriting in your specific documents.
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