Transkribus is a
platform for the
text recognition,
image analysis
Image analysis or imagery analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques. Image analysis tasks can be as simple as reading barcode, bar coded tags or a ...
and structure recognition of historical documents.
The platform was created in the context of the two EU projects "tranScriptorium" (2013–2015) and "READ" (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents – 2016–2019). It was developed by the
University of Innsbruck
The University of Innsbruck (; ) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669.
It is the largest education facility in the Austrian States of Austria, ...
. Since July 1, 2019 the platform has been directed and further developed by the READ-COOP, a non-profit
cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, coöperative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomy, autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned a ...
.
The platform integrates tools developed by research groups throughout Europe, including the ''Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology'' (PRHLT) group of the
Technical University of Valencia and the Computational Intelligence Technology Lab (CITlab) group of
University of Rostock
The University of Rostock () is a public university located in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Founded in 1419, it is the third-oldest university in Germany. It is the oldest university in continental northern Europe and the Baltic Se ...
.
Comparable programs that offer similar functions are
eScriptorium
eScriptorium is a platform for manual or automated segmentation and text recognition of historical manuscripts and prints.
Details
The software is an open source software developed at the Paris Sciences et Lettres University as part of the ...
and OCR4All.
References
Further reading
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External links
* {{Official website
READ-COOPDeutschsprachige Benutzeranleitung für die Transkribus-PlattformGithub Repository* Marc Rothballer
''Transkribus – Erfahrungsbericht zu maschinellem Lernen und Handwritten Text Recognition in der Heimat- und Familienforschung'' Besprechung der Software vom 26. Juni 2020 im Archivalia-Blog
Optical character recognition
Machine learning task