Projects “Reading in the Alps. Private book ownership in the Catholically dominated Central Alps 1750–1800” and “Living in the Alps” · PyLaia · Published December 13, 2022

Land registers (Verfachbücher) Tyrol, 1750-1800

Text Recognition

Description

This model is trained on about 105.000 words from the so-called “Verfachbücher” from the Tyrolean Pustertal valley and based on the public Model German_Kurrent_XVI-XVIII_M1. The ground truth material covers several rather typical handwriting styles for the given period, region, and type of administrative texts. The model was created within the projects “Lesen im Alpental. Privater Buchbesitz in Tirol 1750-1800” (FWF, P 29329) and “Living in the Alps” („Digitalisierung und Informationsextraktion für die Digital Humanities“ (DI4DH)).

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Moderate error rate13.6% CER

Character Error Rate (CER) measures the percentage of characters incorrectly recognised. Lower is better. This model scored 13.6% 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.

Words129,152
Lines33,582
Training Pages505
Model ID48740