+ Transkribus in 10 steps?! Find out how in our new video...
Are you interested in using Transkribus for Handwritten Text Recognition? If you have a couple of minutes, you can get an overview of the process in our new video. How to use Transkribus – in 10 steps was put together by Elena Mühlbauer from Passau Diocesan Archives, who are one of the READ project partners.
You can find a more detailed version of this How to Guide, along with other instructional papers, on the Transkribus wiki.
Or if you’re in the mood for more videos, the Transkribus YouTube channel has a growing playlist of video presentations relating to the READ project.
You could try ‘Handwritten Text Recognition: Key Concepts’ by Roger Labahn (University of Rostock)
or ‘Automated Writer Identification and its Use Cases for Archival Documents’ by Stefan Fiel (Technical University Vienna).
Happy watching!
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