Danish-Norwegian (and German) Print 17th century

Model details

Creator(s)

yngvil.beyer@nb.no

Language(s)

Danish, German, Norwegian

Centuries

CER on Validation Set

2%

Size (Nr. of Words)

106,211

Model ID

40982

About this Model

Model trained on 77 Danish-Norwegian and 23 German small blackletter prints (broadside ballads – “skillingsviser”) compiled in “Peder Rafns visebog”, København 1583-1634.

In the training data the different printing practices of the period are reflected. The letters i, j, u and v are transcribed diplomatic; i.e. as they appear. Ligatures β, ꜩ and œ are transcribed s, tz and oe. n/m with a macron is trancribed nn/mm, and the rotunda ꝛ is transcribed r.

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