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Your archive holds council minutes, land registries, tax rolls, and civil records that no one can read anymore. Transkribus turns handwritten documents into searchable text — so every citizen can explore their city's past.

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Council Minutes

Historical cursive scripts, marginalia, and centuries of municipal decisions — fully searchable with layout-aware text recognition.

Land Registries & Cadastral Records

AI table recognition extracts structured data from handwritten property ledgers, land transfers, and cadastral maps.

Civil Registry Records

Birth, marriage, and death certificates — batch-process thousands of register pages with full-text search across names, dates, and places.

Tax Rolls & Fiscal Records

Complex column layouts, faded ink, mixed scripts — table recognition handles the toughest fiscal ledgers.

City & Village Chronicles

Handwritten local histories and community narratives spanning centuries — made readable and searchable.

Building Permits & Administration

Historical building permits, planning documents, and administrative correspondence — digitally searchable.

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Transkribus reads historical handwriting with 95%+ accuracy. Every transcription stays linked to the original image — not a black-box AI, but verifiable paleography. Hover over the lines to explore.

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ders des Keßlers Frau von Maschwanden

welche sich mit verheelung und kauf¬

licher annahm gestohlenen guets ver¬

schiedenlich vergangen, solle diesen

nachmittag neben das halßeisen ge¬

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Netherlands

Stadsarchief Amsterdam| Transcripties

Stadsarchief Amsterdam | Amsterdam City Archives

Search the handwritten pages from the archives of the Amsterdam City Archives directly.The ATR collection (Automated Text Recognition; including Handwritten ...

3.0M pages1278–2017

Published Mar 2026

Netherlands

Gemeentearchief Schiedam

Explore the transcribed sources of the Schiedam Municipal Archive. The 17th, 18th and 19th-century notarial deeds and sources from the city government betwee...

385K pages

Published May 2024

Germany

Deutsche Ratsprotokolle 17. bis 19. Jh.

German Council Minutes 17th to 19th century (Kurrentschrift)For the town of Bautzen, the municipal archives have a relatively complete record of the official...

53K pages

Published Nov 2024

Germany

Historische Sammlungen Moenchengladbach

The database contains digitised content from the library of the Volksverein für das katholische Deutschland, which is housed in the Mönchengladbach City Libr...

44K pages

Published May 2025

Switzerland

Staatsarchiv Obwalden

Regierungsratsprotokolle des Kantons Obwalden 1850–1900Das Staatsarchiv Obwalden ermöglicht auf dieser Seite eine Volltextsuche in den Regierungsratsprotokol...

20K pages

Published Jan 2025

Archivio di Stato di Vibo Valentia - Atti Notarili

Italy

Archivio di Stato di Vibo Valentia - Atti Notarili

Questo progetto mira a rendere consultabile online una selezione di atti del fondo notarile dell'Archivio di Stato di Vibo Valentia. Sono state rese disponib...

7.3K pages

Published Sep 2024

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EU-hosted & GDPR-compliant

All data processed and stored in Austria. Full compliance with European data protection regulations. Your documents never leave Europe.

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READ-COOP is a European cooperative owned by 180+ member institutions — including archives, universities, and libraries. You can join and shape the platform.

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200 million pages processed. Used by the Amsterdam City Archives (3M pages), Bautzen (53K pages of council minutes), and hundreds of institutions across Europe.

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200M+pages processed

3M+pages published by one city

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