XXth century Typewritten Portuguese

This model is created from Portuguese typewritten transcriptions from the mid-XXth century, which were based on a confraternity Statute from the XVIIIth century. A great number of documents from Minas Gerais in the XVIIIth century have been transcribed by researchers from the SPHAN (Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional 1936-1970). These transcriptions were then typewritten and are now available digitally in IPHAN´s archives. This model allows a fast and reliable recognition of these types of documents. For this model we followed as much as possible the exact characters and spacing in the original (even when there was lapsus calamus), in order to teach the model to read exactly what is there. The diacritics have been maintained as in the original, except when faded or were too far away from the letter, in those cases we ignored them. Comas, stop points, and others, have remained exactly where they are shown. The markings of a line change, although sometimes appear at the bottom of the word, have been standardized after the last word of the line. Letters that are absent or too faded, have been ignored, leaving a space where they should be.