Aarhus City Archives · PyLaia · Published April 14, 2023

19th century Danish Gothic handwriting v.1.1

Text Recognition

Description

Model for 19th century Danish Gothic handwriting. The material consists of various sources older than 1875. Some material consists of late 18th century and early 19th century handwriting provided by Associate Professor Johan Heinsen. The rest of the training material consists of Parish protocols from Aarhus Stadsarkiv, NæstvedArkiverne, Gentofte Lokalarkiv and Ry Lokalarkiv through the project RETRO. More info can be found on retrodigitalisering.dk. This model is trained by the archivists Kristian Pindstrup, Mia Gulvad Jørgensen and Anette Larner at Aarhus City Archives.

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Low error rate6.7% CER

Character Error Rate (CER) measures the percentage of characters incorrectly recognised. Lower is better. This model scored 6.7% on its validation set. As a rule of thumb, a CER below 10% is considered good for most handwritten material. This is a larger model trained on diverse material, which generally makes it more robust across different handwriting styles. That said, larger training sets also make it harder to push the CER down further.

Measured on the model's own validation data. Results on your documents may differ depending on handwriting style, document condition, language, and how closely your material resembles the training data.

Words984,735
Lines157,736
Training Pages3,055
Model ID51398
Languages
Danish
Centuries
19th c.