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
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With the help of Transkribus accessing and searching a large number of historical documents – written in old German Scripts – is today possible. By using one of the public models or a own model, thousands of historical documents can be automatically converted into text.
The model was trained on an extensive manuscript of early modern poetry, in separate hands (of which one is the most important) using different types of writing and special lay-outs (e.g. chronograms).
The author of the manuscript is a rhetorician (vernacular poet) from Mechelen, present-day Belgium, active in the first decades of the seventeenth century. The training was based on a word count of over 51,000 words (more than 200 folios of text) and the CER is 5,00%.
Model-ID needs to be dynamic for this component
You can use this model to automatically transcribe Handwritten documents with Handwritten Text Recgnition in Transkribus.