Transkribus Platform
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Transkribus is the READ project’s comprehensive platform for the automated recognition, transcription and searching of historical documents.
28/05/2026
Transcription used to be the end goal. Now, it’s just the starting point.
Trying to use broad, everyday tech tools for specialised historical work often leads to a major bottleneck. Generic models frequently struggle with complex multi-column layouts, historical handwriting, or unpredictable hallucinations in the text.
At TUC 2026, we’re dedicating three days to discussing how Transkribus and various AI approaches can effectively meet the needs of scholars, archivists, and research institutions in unlocking the written past.
Our sessions will address these practical challenges head on, from building databases with Smart Extract Models and mastering complex layout segmentation to analysing what Visual Language Models can achieve for historical documents.
If you’re working with historical sources and want to better understand what current AI methods can (and cannot) realistically do in practice, join us this September at the Universität Passau!
⏰ Early Bird tickets (25% off) end this Sunday, May 31st.
👉 https://eu1.hubs.ly/H0vHWfj0
