🔗 Sources (1/2)
Griffiths (abbreviations): tinyurl.com/3n52x2pk
Eveleigh & al. (TEI): tinyurl.com/wweksdpa
Pasciuto (semantic web): tinyurl.com/bd464zuk
Sawy (Coptic): tinyurl.com/42c8m65z
Wadhwa (Indian archives): tinyurl.com/mwcahkky
Griffiths (abbreviations): tinyurl.com/3n52x2pk
Eveleigh & al. (TEI): tinyurl.com/wweksdpa
Pasciuto (semantic web): tinyurl.com/bd464zuk
Sawy (Coptic): tinyurl.com/42c8m65z
Wadhwa (Indian archives): tinyurl.com/mwcahkky
Transkribus in Practice: Abbreviations
In my last article, I wrote about my experiments to improve the accuracy of a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model using Transkribus. This is part of my ongoing work with the ERC-funded project…
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October 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
🔗 Sources (1/2)
Griffiths (abbreviations): tinyurl.com/3n52x2pk
Eveleigh & al. (TEI): tinyurl.com/wweksdpa
Pasciuto (semantic web): tinyurl.com/bd464zuk
Sawy (Coptic): tinyurl.com/42c8m65z
Wadhwa (Indian archives): tinyurl.com/mwcahkky
Griffiths (abbreviations): tinyurl.com/3n52x2pk
Eveleigh & al. (TEI): tinyurl.com/wweksdpa
Pasciuto (semantic web): tinyurl.com/bd464zuk
Sawy (Coptic): tinyurl.com/42c8m65z
Wadhwa (Indian archives): tinyurl.com/mwcahkky
🔗 Sources (1/2)
Morris (Kirishitanban): tinyurl.com/ytr4wewh
Ishac (Syriac): tinyurl.com/mthyr3k5
Griffiths (CER): tinyurl.com/y23b2ut6
Kynn (teaching): tinyurl.com/3h45p9me
Wion (Ethiopic): tinyurl.com/yx94su7z
Morris (Kirishitanban): tinyurl.com/ytr4wewh
Ishac (Syriac): tinyurl.com/mthyr3k5
Griffiths (CER): tinyurl.com/y23b2ut6
Kynn (teaching): tinyurl.com/3h45p9me
Wion (Ethiopic): tinyurl.com/yx94su7z
Transkribus and Kirishitanban: Some Initial Experiments
Inspired by a workshop given by Dr. Alex Mallett (Waseda University) that I attended in May last year, I recently began experimenting with Transkribus,a platform that, amongst other things, allows …
tinyurl.com
October 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
🔗 Sources (1/2)
Morris (Kirishitanban): tinyurl.com/ytr4wewh
Ishac (Syriac): tinyurl.com/mthyr3k5
Griffiths (CER): tinyurl.com/y23b2ut6
Kynn (teaching): tinyurl.com/3h45p9me
Wion (Ethiopic): tinyurl.com/yx94su7z
Morris (Kirishitanban): tinyurl.com/ytr4wewh
Ishac (Syriac): tinyurl.com/mthyr3k5
Griffiths (CER): tinyurl.com/y23b2ut6
Kynn (teaching): tinyurl.com/3h45p9me
Wion (Ethiopic): tinyurl.com/yx94su7z
There is no single best. My own preference is eScriptorium. Personally, the technique is not that hard to acquire. For a beginner, though, I'd point to Transkribus: it is easier to start with, and its cooperative model sits better with me than a purely commercial one.
October 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
There is no single best. My own preference is eScriptorium. Personally, the technique is not that hard to acquire. For a beginner, though, I'd point to Transkribus: it is easier to start with, and its cooperative model sits better with me than a purely commercial one.
2. Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social
Probably the most accessible to begin with: a polished interface and a large catalogue of ready-made models. It is credit-based: a monthly free tier, then paid. It is strongest on European hands. One limit: models cannot leave its ecosystem.
Probably the most accessible to begin with: a polished interface and a large catalogue of ready-made models. It is credit-based: a monthly free tier, then paid. It is strongest on European hands. One limit: models cannot leave its ecosystem.
October 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
2. Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social
Probably the most accessible to begin with: a polished interface and a large catalogue of ready-made models. It is credit-based: a monthly free tier, then paid. It is strongest on European hands. One limit: models cannot leave its ecosystem.
Probably the most accessible to begin with: a polished interface and a large catalogue of ready-made models. It is credit-based: a monthly free tier, then paid. It is strongest on European hands. One limit: models cannot leave its ecosystem.
The DO has more on Transkribus than any other tool, so for examples on non-Latin scripts and non-European languages: James Morris on Kirishitanban, Ephrem Ishac on the first public Syriac model, Rachael Griffiths on lowering error rates in Tibetan, and Tyler Kynn on teaching with it.
October 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
The DO has more on Transkribus than any other tool, so for examples on non-Latin scripts and non-European languages: James Morris on Kirishitanban, Ephrem Ishac on the first public Syriac model, Rachael Griffiths on lowering error rates in Tibetan, and Tyler Kynn on teaching with it.
Ég gerði tilraunir, mjög yfirborðskenndar, fyrir svona 15 mánuðum með transkribus og manntal Reykjavíkur 1950, sem er leiðinlega vélritað eftirrit með asnalegum dálksetningum og það var ekki til mikilla bóta. Jájá.
October 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Ég gerði tilraunir, mjög yfirborðskenndar, fyrir svona 15 mánuðum með transkribus og manntal Reykjavíkur 1950, sem er leiðinlega vélritað eftirrit með asnalegum dálksetningum og það var ekki til mikilla bóta. Jájá.
Að þessu sögðu þá er til gervigreind sem les ýmisskonar handskrift, transkribus og til dæmis Gemini.
Mér sýnist hún hafa það notagildi að ég gæti t.d. myndað allar bréfabækur Jóns Árnasonar biskups, skellt þeim í gervigreindina og gert svo orðaleit.
Mér sýnist hún hafa það notagildi að ég gæti t.d. myndað allar bréfabækur Jóns Árnasonar biskups, skellt þeim í gervigreindina og gert svo orðaleit.
Ég var einmitt í dag að fá póst frá Visku um að samkvæmt könnun stéttarfélagsins frá í fyrra hafi 80% svarenda notað gervigreind og næstum allir helsáttir.
En ég hef svo sem aldrei átt auðvelt með að átta mig á því hvað það eiginlega er sem fullorðið fólk gerir í vinnunni allan daginn.
En ég hef svo sem aldrei átt auðvelt með að átta mig á því hvað það eiginlega er sem fullorðið fólk gerir í vinnunni allan daginn.
80% sérfræðinga nota gervigreind í starfi og 67% segja hana auka afköst - Viska - stéttarfélag
Um 80% sérfræðinga á vinnumarkaði nota gervigreind í starfi og meirihluti notar eigin aðgang. 67% segja gervigreind þá auka afköst í starfi en aðeins 34% hefur verið boðin fræðsla af hendi vinnuveitan...
www.viska.is
October 1, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Að þessu sögðu þá er til gervigreind sem les ýmisskonar handskrift, transkribus og til dæmis Gemini.
Mér sýnist hún hafa það notagildi að ég gæti t.d. myndað allar bréfabækur Jóns Árnasonar biskups, skellt þeim í gervigreindina og gert svo orðaleit.
Mér sýnist hún hafa það notagildi að ég gæti t.d. myndað allar bréfabækur Jóns Árnasonar biskups, skellt þeim í gervigreindina og gert svo orðaleit.
Gervigreindin les ekki staf fyrir staf heldur heil orð. Það er furðu mannlegt af henni eiginlega, ég er sjálf verri í að lesa fljótaskrift sem er ekki á íslensku. En gervigreindin er enn verri að þessu leyti og þar af leiðir að transkribus er orðinn mjög flinkur í dönsku en meikar ekki íslensku.
October 1, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Gervigreindin les ekki staf fyrir staf heldur heil orð. Það er furðu mannlegt af henni eiginlega, ég er sjálf verri í að lesa fljótaskrift sem er ekki á íslensku. En gervigreindin er enn verri að þessu leyti og þar af leiðir að transkribus er orðinn mjög flinkur í dönsku en meikar ekki íslensku.
Á þessari kynningu sem ég fór á um transkribus (fyrir nokkru síðan) sýndist mér einmitt að það réði ekkert við texta sem færi á einhvern hátt út fyrir rammann. Vinnufélagi minn segir mér að Gemini standi sig betur. En ég er mjög ónýjungagjarn einstaklingur.
October 1, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Á þessari kynningu sem ég fór á um transkribus (fyrir nokkru síðan) sýndist mér einmitt að það réði ekkert við texta sem færi á einhvern hátt út fyrir rammann. Vinnufélagi minn segir mér að Gemini standi sig betur. En ég er mjög ónýjungagjarn einstaklingur.
The recent @transkribus.bsky.social conference had a lot of examples on benchmarking criteria for humanities projects using various AIs/transkribus itself.
September 30, 2026 at 1:43 PM
The recent @transkribus.bsky.social conference had a lot of examples on benchmarking criteria for humanities projects using various AIs/transkribus itself.
And that's me just finished recording a lecture related to this topic! And in a couple weeks they'll be testing & discussing Transkribus. Guess if I'm adding a link to this article to the reading list?! Perspective is needed.
Substack post by Ranke de Vries which not only shows that AI won't be taking over Medieval Irish Studies any time soon (thankfully), but also makes an eloquent case in favour of sitting with the difficulty of manuscript transcription.
#MedievalSky
rankedevries.substack.com/p/ai-and-med...
#MedievalSky
rankedevries.substack.com/p/ai-and-med...
AI and medieval Irish manuscripts
Just no.
rankedevries.substack.com
September 28, 2026 at 8:11 PM
And that's me just finished recording a lecture related to this topic! And in a couple weeks they'll be testing & discussing Transkribus. Guess if I'm adding a link to this article to the reading list?! Perspective is needed.
Maybe I missed it, but what tool did you use? For reading handwriting it's better to use an AI tool specifically trained for that, like Transkribus, rather than a generic LLM.
September 26, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Maybe I missed it, but what tool did you use? For reading handwriting it's better to use an AI tool specifically trained for that, like Transkribus, rather than a generic LLM.
Versuche gerade, sinnvolle Workflows für Handwritten-Text-Recognition zu erarbeiten und bin frustriert, denn die Dokumente, die ich bearbeite sind zwar nicht leicht leserlich, aber ich bin doch schneller und genauer als die verschiedenen Transkribus-Modelle. Bei einzelnen Dokumenten kann es helfen.
September 25, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Versuche gerade, sinnvolle Workflows für Handwritten-Text-Recognition zu erarbeiten und bin frustriert, denn die Dokumente, die ich bearbeite sind zwar nicht leicht leserlich, aber ich bin doch schneller und genauer als die verschiedenen Transkribus-Modelle. Bei einzelnen Dokumenten kann es helfen.
Yesterday at the departmental back-to-school reception I was chatting with a postdoc about Transkribus who was excited to hear about something that was easy to use, and deployed technology in a helpful, supportive way without being weird, creepy, and pushy.
September 23, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Yesterday at the departmental back-to-school reception I was chatting with a postdoc about Transkribus who was excited to hear about something that was easy to use, and deployed technology in a helpful, supportive way without being weird, creepy, and pushy.
Nice to see the Winter School of HTR mentioned as one of the highlights of TUC26 and the Transkribus community in general! Super proud to be part of it since the very beginning! @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social
(also if someone has a better photo, do let me know 💙)
(also if someone has a better photo, do let me know 💙)
September 23, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Nice to see the Winter School of HTR mentioned as one of the highlights of TUC26 and the Transkribus community in general! Super proud to be part of it since the very beginning! @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social
(also if someone has a better photo, do let me know 💙)
(also if someone has a better photo, do let me know 💙)
¡Hoy es el último día de Transkribus User Conference 2026! Aprenderás más sobre cómo se relacionan las #HumanidadesDigitales y la #IA 🤖🖼️ @clariahes
Puedes seguirlo de forma online
Puedes seguirlo de forma online
Transkribus User Conference 2026
Join us at the Transkribus User Conference 2026 - Connect, Learn, and Explore the Future of Unlocking Written Heritage with AI
f.mtr.cool
September 23, 2026 at 7:05 AM
¡Hoy es el último día de Transkribus User Conference 2026! Aprenderás más sobre cómo se relacionan las #HumanidadesDigitales y la #IA 🤖🖼️ @clariahes
Puedes seguirlo de forma online
Puedes seguirlo de forma online
A big thanks to everyone who came out to my talk about my braille character recognition model at the @transkribus.bsky.social conference in Passau today! (And thanks to @melissaterras.bsky.social for the photo!)
September 22, 2026 at 8:43 AM
A big thanks to everyone who came out to my talk about my braille character recognition model at the @transkribus.bsky.social conference in Passau today! (And thanks to @melissaterras.bsky.social for the photo!)
Doing my Transkribus thing! I talked about how we came out of two research projects, acknowledging Valencia, Innsbruck, and the original team members; the importance of documenting what we are doing for transparency (still research for me!); and the support we now provide for academic research.
September 21, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Doing my Transkribus thing! I talked about how we came out of two research projects, acknowledging Valencia, Innsbruck, and the original team members; the importance of documenting what we are doing for transparency (still research for me!); and the support we now provide for academic research.
I'm teaching a Transkribus workshop in a couple of weeks - would love to cite your braille model if you have a link!
September 21, 2026 at 10:16 AM
I'm teaching a Transkribus workshop in a couple of weeks - would love to cite your braille model if you have a link!
It is day one of the Transkribus User Conference in Passau! Looking forward to meeting some new people and learning more about this powerful ATR tool. If you're here in Passau, please come say hi! I'll be presenting a lightning talk about my braille model tomorrow.
September 21, 2026 at 8:07 AM
It is day one of the Transkribus User Conference in Passau! Looking forward to meeting some new people and learning more about this powerful ATR tool. If you're here in Passau, please come say hi! I'll be presenting a lightning talk about my braille model tomorrow.
Transkribus kann das,
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monatlich sind 50 Seiten gratis
September 19, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Transkribus kann das,
monatlich sind 50 Seiten gratis
monatlich sind 50 Seiten gratis
Very excited to talk about my braille model at the Transkribus conference next week in Passau!
How do you train a model to read a script that almost no one is building tools for?
Six speakers share how they trained models for Braille, early modern Spanish calligraphy, Classical Nahuatl, Cyrillic-script Romanian registers, and endangered languages more broadly.
Join the session at #TUC26 🌏
Six speakers share how they trained models for Braille, early modern Spanish calligraphy, Classical Nahuatl, Cyrillic-script Romanian registers, and endangered languages more broadly.
Join the session at #TUC26 🌏
Panel 1: Scripts of the World
All six talks show what happens when language or script sits outside the European mainstream — methodologically, linguistically, technically.
tuc.transkribus.org
September 16, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Very excited to talk about my braille model at the Transkribus conference next week in Passau!
New online scholarly edition of Rıza Nur’s Ermeni Tarihi (1914–23), now on Transkribus: manuscript images + İA-based transcription, preserving revisions and planned illustrations. A critical source on nationalism and anti-Armenianism.
app.transkribus.org/en/sites/edi...
app.transkribus.org/en/sites/edi...
September 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
New online scholarly edition of Rıza Nur’s Ermeni Tarihi (1914–23), now on Transkribus: manuscript images + İA-based transcription, preserving revisions and planned illustrations. A critical source on nationalism and anti-Armenianism.
app.transkribus.org/en/sites/edi...
app.transkribus.org/en/sites/edi...