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Transkribus harnesses artificial intelligence to help decipher digitized handwritten and printed historical documents and texts.  
Transkribus harnesses artificial intelligence to help decipher digitized handwritten and printed historical documents and texts.  


For most any project using Transkribus, whether utilizing a language model or training one of your own, these are the basic workflow steps:
#Uploading an image or PDF file
#Recognition
#Editing transcribed
#Sharing or exporting a file


Each step within the workflow presents options to maximize the accuracy of what is transcribed or unlocked in a translated text. With options comes troubleshooting, consult the [https://help.transkribus.org/ Help Center] for additional assistance.


=Resources=
=Resources=
Read-Coop, the cooperative developers that created Transkribus, offers many recorded webinars and tutorials on using the artificial intelligence tool. There is also the [https://help.transkribus.org/ Transkribus Help Center], which offers extensive documentation and a search bar for troubleshooting.  
The cooperative developers, [https://readcoop.org/ Read-Coop], that created Transkribus offer many recorded webinars and tutorials on using the artificial intelligence tool. There is also the [https://help.transkribus.org/ Transkribus Help Center], which offers extensive documentation and a search bar for troubleshooting.  
==Starting to use Transkribus==
==Starting to use Transkribus==
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7UbQtd4qlhIMP1KfdjGW3C-KXTxw4KYb Getting Started with Transkribus]
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7UbQtd4qlhIMP1KfdjGW3C-KXTxw4KYb Getting Started with Transkribus]

Revision as of 18:58, 9 June 2025

The Center implemented Transkribus in the Summer of 2025, together with staff from our Partner institutions, for various pilot projects. The new technology is also being incorporated into reference and research requests in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room, Ackman & Ziff Genealogy Institute, and throughout the Center.

To log into Transkribus, please visit https://app.transkribus.org

Overview

Transkribus harnesses artificial intelligence to help decipher digitized handwritten and printed historical documents and texts.

For most any project using Transkribus, whether utilizing a language model or training one of your own, these are the basic workflow steps:

  1. Uploading an image or PDF file
  2. Recognition
  3. Editing transcribed
  4. Sharing or exporting a file

Each step within the workflow presents options to maximize the accuracy of what is transcribed or unlocked in a translated text. With options comes troubleshooting, consult the Help Center for additional assistance.

Resources

The cooperative developers, Read-Coop, that created Transkribus offer many recorded webinars and tutorials on using the artificial intelligence tool. There is also the Transkribus Help Center, which offers extensive documentation and a search bar for troubleshooting.

Starting to use Transkribus

Getting Started with Transkribus

More Advanced Webinars


Past User Conferences

Other pilot projects and use cases


More information on Language Models and Super Models in Transkribus

Selected List of Available Large Language Super Models

Depending on the scope and desired outcome for a Transkribus project, using a language super model may be easier than training AI to transcribe.

  • The Text Titan I (GER, DUT, FRE, FIN, ENG, SWE)
  • Dutch Dean (DUT)
  • Dansk Dokumentalist (DAN)
  • German Genius (GEN)
  • Polski Bizon (POL)
  • English Elder (ENG)
  • Faucon Français (FRE)
  • Spanish Sage (SPA)

A complete list of language models is available here.

To request exported files

Ethical Guidelines examples for Use of Artificial Intelligence in Archives