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Creator(s)

Name Name Name

Language(s)

German, Dutch, English

Centuries

15th, 16th, 17th

CER on Validation Set

5.12%

Size (Nr. of Words)

12 012 111

Model ID

124921

About this Model

There are a number of old German Scripts that were used in the German speaking World between the 16th and 20th century. On the one hand, there were a number of handwritings including Kurrent Script, Sütterlin, Offenbacher Script. But there were also some printed Scrpits such as Fraktur or Antiqua.

With the help of Transkribus accessing and searching a large number of historical documents – written in old German Scripts – is today possible. By using one of the public models or a own model, thousands of historical documents can be automatically converted into text.

This is a combined model of ground truth of different charter and book scripts from a variety of projects and institutions, aiming at building a generic model for Latin scripts of the Middle Ages.
It is mainly based on documents from the project CREMMA Manuscrits médiévaux latins, HIMANIS (CNRS), Itinera Nova (Stadsarchief Leuven), and Charters and Records of Königsfelden (Universität Zürich).

CREMMA Manuscrits médiévaux latins has been produced by Clérice, Thibault and Chagué, Alix and Vlachou Efstathiou, Malamatenia. It is licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
URL: https://github.com/HTR-United/CREMMA-Medieval-LAT

HIMANIS is partially published as HIMANIS Guérin produced by Stutzmann, Dominique; Hamel, Sébastien; Kernier, Iseut de; Mühlberger, Günter; Hackl, Günter. Licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5535306

Charters and Records of Königsfelden Abbey and Bailiwick (1308-1662) has been produced by Halter-Pernet, Colette; Teuscher, Simon; Hodel, Tobias; Barwitzki, Lukas; Egloff, Salome; Henggeler, Fabian; Nadig, Michael; Steinmann, Anina; Stettler, Sabine; Prada Ziegler, Ismail. Licensed under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5179361

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