What you can transcribe
Letters, notes, and personal documents of every kind
Transkribus handles a wide range of handwritten materials — from family letters to field notebooks.
Personal Letters
Family correspondence, love letters, wartime mail
Postcards
Handwritten messages on postcards from any era
Diaries & Journals
Daily entries, travel journals, personal reflections
Notebooks
Research notes, lecture notes, lab notebooks
Archival Records
Church records, court documents, administrative files
Official Documents
Certificates, contracts, wills, and legal papers
How it works
AI reads your handwritten letters and notes
Transkribus uses neural networks trained on millions of handwritten words to convert your letters and notes into digital text. Upload a photo or scan, and the AI analyzes the handwriting line by line — recognizing connected strokes, faded ink, and personal writing styles that standard OCR cannot handle.
Works with cursive, block letters, and mixed handwriting
Handles faded ink, damaged paper, and low-contrast scans
Layout analysis detects lines, paragraphs, and marginalia automatically
Confidence scores let you assess accuracy for every line
Addres to dear Isabella on the Authors
recovery
O Isa pain did visit me
I was at the last extremity
How often did I think of you
I wished your graceful form to view
To clasp you in my weak embrace
Indeed I thought Id run my race
Good Care Im sure was of me taken
But indeed I was much shaken
At last I daily strength did gain
AI models
300+ models for different handwriting styles
Every person writes differently — and so do our AI models. The Transkribus community has trained over 300 public models for specific scripts, languages, and document types. Use Text Titan I for general handwriting, or find a specialized model that matches your letters and notes exactly.
Text Titan I: general-purpose model for most handwriting styles
Specialized models for Kurrent, Sütterlin, copperplate, and more
Community-trained models shared freely across the platform
Train your own model on your specific handwriting in ~50 pages
Edit & enrich
Correct, annotate, and tag your transcriptions
After the AI transcribes your letters and notes, use the built-in editor to correct errors, add tags for people, places, and dates, and define custom properties. Structure your documents with layout tags for headings, paragraphs, and marginalia.
Built-in transcription editor for corrections
Tag people, places, dates, and custom entities
Define custom tags and properties for your project
Annotate document structure: headings, paragraphs, marginalia
Search & export
Search your letters and export in any format
Once transcribed, your handwritten letters and notes become fully searchable. Find names, dates, and keywords across entire collections. Export your transcriptions in the format you need — from simple text files to structured scholarly formats.
Full-text search across all your transcribed documents
Export as TXT, DOCX, PDF, TEI-XML, PAGE XML, or ALTO
Publish searchable digital editions with Transkribus Sites
Collaborate with teams and share collections
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500K+Users worldwide
300+Public AI models