Transkribus

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intelligence in handwriting and text recognition technology to decipher digitized assets that contain handwritten historical documents and printed texts.

Resources

Other pilot projects and use cases

• Historical Archives of the Supreme Court of Louisiana: Transkribus
• Transkribus as an Institutional Service

More information on Language Models and Super Models in Transkribus

• How Large Language Models Work
• What are Super Models

Ethical Guidelines examples for Use of Artificial Intelligence in Archives

• National Library of Scotland
• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence