Make the unique content of your library accessible
Use the Transkribus platform to bring your library’s content to the digital world.
Digitise newspapers, early or rare prints, and codices
Transkribus provides a quick and easy way to create digital versions of your rare or unique holdings, and any other written media. Using powerful AI models, the platform extracts both printed and handwritten text from scanned images and turns it into digital text files. This means high-quality digital access to newspapers, books, and manuscripts that only your institution has.
Create a scanning station for your visitors
Our ScanTents provide a hassle-free way to equip your visitors with state-of-the-art scanning facilities. The portable tents have built-in LED lighting that won’t harm your books and documents, and a stability mount, allowing your visitors to take high-quality images of documents with just their smartphones—no need for expensive book scanners that you need to teach your visitors how to use.
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Enrich your content with metadata
Give your visitors an enhanced reading experience. Using metadata and tags, you—or researchers—can mark important parts of your digital text, such as names or places, —so it is easier for readers visiting your library, offline or online, to find what they are looking for.
Publish your content
Share your digital holdings with the world via the Transkribus Sites platform. Transkribus Sites makes it possible to publish entire digital collections online, which can then be viewed privately or publicly, in-house or on the web, depending on your needs.
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Use Transkribus in your library
Leverage the power of Transkribus to unlock your valuable sources.
Make your content searchable
Unlike paper collections, digital collections can be easily searched for particular names, places, and other key terms. This helps the reader to quickly locate exactly what they are looking for.
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Explore how other libraries sucessfully used Transkribus
Get some inspiration from other libraries and their great projects.
Christian Sieber
Head of the department for post-development and digitisation
“The better you know your texts, the better you can plan your project.”
Christian Sieber about the use of Transkribus in the Staatsarchiv Zürich
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Start unlocking the past with Transkribus
Leverage the power of Transkribus to get the most out of your historical documents.