Your parish registers, transcribed and searchable.
Baptism, marriage, and burial registers hold centuries of community history — but the handwriting makes them nearly impossible to use at scale. Transkribus reads the text, extracts the table structure, and turns every entry into searchable, structured data. From a single register to an entire diocesan archive.
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The output
What you end up with after processing your parish register collection.
Searchable full text
Every name, date, and entry across every page — recognized and indexed. Search by person, place, date range, or keyword across an entire archive of registers.
Structured table data
The AI detects the column structure of baptism, marriage, and burial registers and extracts each entry as a separate row. Export directly to spreadsheets or databases — no manual re-typing.
A browsable online collection
Processed registers can be published as a Transkribus Site — a hosted, searchable interface for your collection. Accessible to parishioners, genealogists, and researchers without any development work.
Case study
Archion: One-click AI transcription for millions of church record pages
The approach
From scans to structured data — how archives digitize parish registers at scale
Guides and models
Tutorials, AI models, and related resources for parish register digitization.
How to Transcribe Church Records
Step-by-step guide to digitizing baptism, marriage, and burial registers with Transkribus.
Handwritten Tables to Spreadsheets
Convert the tabular layouts of parish registers into structured Excel data with table recognition.
AI Models for Fraktur, Kurrent & Sütterlin
The most common historical German scripts in church records — and the public models that read them.
Ready to digitize your parish register collection?
Talk to our team about your archive. We'll help you find the right models, plan the workflow, and estimate the scope — from a single register volume to an entire diocesan collection.