Using artificial intelligence, computers can decipher handwritten texts and make them readable for everyone. The Transkribus platform, co-developed at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, makes this technology available .
October 11, 2022
Using artificial intelligence, computers can decipher handwritten texts and make them readable for everyone. The Transkribus platform, co-developed at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, makes this technology available to scholars and the general public. An ever-growing group of people are using Transkribus to research their family history. Recently, users from all over the world met in Innsbruck.
Handwriting is as individual as people are. Nevertheless, computers today are capable of automatically recognizing handwritings in a wide variety of languages. The Transkribus software platform, co-developed by the University of Innsbruck, makes this technology available to the scientific community, archives, and the general public. Over 90,000 users from all over the world are already using the platform to make handwritten documents readable and searchable. An ever-growing group of people are interested in their family history and are beginning to search for their ancestors in church records, contracts, or other historical documents.
„Searching these documents by hand can be a very tedious task. Our technology now makes researching family history much easier,“ says Günter Mühlberger from the Digitization and Digital Archiving Working Group at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the European cooperative READ-COOP.
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