Transkribus is an AI-powered platform for text recognition, transcription and searching of historical documents – from any place, any time, and in any language

Transkribus requires some effort and there's a learning curve. It isn't instantaneous and you should expect imperfect results, but it can save you time and effort. Start with free TranskribusLite.

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TRIDIS (Tria Digita Scribunt) is a Handwritten Text Recognition model trained on and for medieval and Early Modern manuscripts (12th-16th centuries). While trained specifically for legal, administrative, and memorial writings from the Late Middle Ages, it may also be useful for a more diverse range of materials including literature and treatises. The model was originally trained on a dataset of legal documents of 2,950 pages (245 thousand lines) and a synthetic dataset of 300 thousand lines. TRIDIS recognizes Latin, Old French, and Old Spanish including a variety of Latin Script families. The authors of the model have an accompanying paper “Hand written Text Recognition for Documentary Medieval Manuscripts” and the training data are also available for download from the project’s homepage