Suomi 1870-1917

Model details

Creator(s)

ilkka.jokipii@arkisto.fi

Language(s)

Finnish

Centuries

19th, 20th

CER on Validation Set

2.2%

Size (Nr. of Words)

446,199

Model ID

48363

About this Model

Suomi 1870-1917, version 1 Finnish Handwriting from 1870 to 1917.
Created by Ilkka Jokipii (National Archives of Finland), Sami Suodenjoki (University of Tampere) and Maria Niku (Finnish Literature Society).

Ground Truth set consist of Finnish Court Records from 1870 to 1917, Citizens letters to the Governor General’s Office and diaries of Eliel Aspelin-Haapkylä. This is the first version of the model and it will be improved. If you have Finnish transcribed text from models era, contact Ilkka Jokipii (ilkka.jokipii@kansallisarkisto.fi) if you would like to share them to improve the ground truth set.

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Suomi 1870-1917 is freely available to everyone

You can use this model to automatically transcribe Handwritten documents with Handwritten Text Recgnition in Transkribus.