Success Stories
Discover how researchers, archivists, and institutions use Transkribus to unlock handwritten historical documents.
44 success stories
Unlocking the secrets of the New Spain Fleets with Patricia Murrieta-Flores
Historians of colonial Latin America don’t suffer from a lack of primary sources. Across archives in Europe and the Americas lie millions of pages documenting the colonial maritime routes known as...
How the University of Helsinki teaches Transkribus to students
Text recognition and AI are quickly becoming essential tools for historians, offering powerful ways to study, process, and access huge collections of archival material. To make sure the next...
How the German Archives for Diaries preserve personal history for future generations
The German Archives for Diaries (Deutsches Tagebucharchiv, DTA) in Emmendingen has one core mission: Collecting and archiving autobiographical records and making them accessible for academic and...
Unlocking Sakya texts: Creating a workflow for cataloguing Tibetan manuscripts
Tibetan is one of the world’s major literary languages, with vast collections of philosophical, religious, historical, grammatical, and medical texts written in the language. It is also the language...
Charting new waters: How 3 projects opened up maritime archives with AI transcription
Maritime history is a field that explores humanity's relationship with the oceans, seas, and waterways of the world. While ships and naval battles are the focus of some maritime historians, others...
Reading the unreadable: How 4 projects deciphered early modern documents with Transkribus
The early modern period marks the transition from the medieval world to the industrialised modern era. It laid the groundwork for many of today's societal and economic structures, such as...
Creating a model to transcribe 250,000 specimen labels at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science (MfN) is one of the largest institutions of its kind in Germany, with an expansive collection of natural...
Transcribing Ancient Greek with Transkribus: 3 Case Studies
Of all the world’s ancient cultures, it is perhaps Ancient Greece that has had the most enduring impact on Western civilisation. From philosophy and politics to drama and science, the texts produced...
How Transkribus unlocked these Spanish-language collections
The Spanish language is not only an important language in today's world, but it has also played a crucial role throughout history. From the early modern period to more recent times, Spanish was the...
Transkribus for all: How Radboud University implemented Transkribus as an institutional service
Transkribus is used by researchers at institutions around the world. This is often done on a project-by-project basis, with scholars setting up their own accounts at the start of the project. But...
Bringing "dead" scripts back to life with Transkribus
Over the centuries, people around the world have developed many different writing systems to communicate and preserve their knowledge. While around 293 writing systems are known to have existed,...
How FromThePage enhanced their transcription platform with the Transkribus API
FromThePage has long championed the idea that public participation can profoundly enrich historical research. As one of the leading platforms for crowdsourced transcription, it is used by heritage...