Make your library's hidden collections searchable.
Manuscripts, rare prints, historical newspapers, correspondence — millions of pages in your stacks that researchers can't find because they aren't searchable. Transkribus reads handwritten and printed text with AI and opens your collections to the world.
Used by the British Library, BnF, National Library of Norway, and libraries worldwide
AI text recognition for every type of library collection
From medieval manuscripts to 20th-century newspapers — Transkribus handles the unique scripts, layouts, and challenges of library holdings.
Manuscripts & Rare Books
Medieval codices, early modern manuscripts, author estates — AI reads historical handwriting across centuries and makes entire collections searchable.
Historical Newspapers
Complex column layouts, Fraktur typefaces, mixed content — layout analysis and text recognition handle even the most challenging newspaper pages.
Correspondence Collections
Scholarly letters, literary estates, institutional correspondence — make thousands of handwritten letters findable by name, date, and content.
Early Printed Books
Incunabula, antiqua, Fraktur — AI models trained on historical typefaces outperform standard OCR on pre-modern printed text.
Address Books & Directories
Structured tabular data across thousands of pages — table recognition extracts names, addresses, and occupations at scale.
In-House Scanning with ScanTent
Equip reading rooms with portable ScanTent stations. Visitors scan documents with their phones — no expensive book scanners needed.
200,000 pages of Viennese history — searchable
A public AI model for Norwegian handwriting
Libraries using Transkribus
From national libraries to specialist research collections — see how libraries use AI to unlock their holdings.
Vienna City Library
200,000+ pages of address books, manuscripts, and obituary notices digitized with AI.
NorHand — National Library of Norway
A public AI model trained on 400+ hands, now processing 25% of the library's scanned holdings.
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome
Rare 15th–16th century art history books made searchable with custom HTR models.
ScanTent at the BnF
40 portable scanning stations deployed across France's national library.
Full-service
We handle the entire project for you
Let's make your collections searchable.
Managed project or self-service — we are happy to discuss both.