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Creator(s)

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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With the help of Transkribus accessing and searching a large number of historical documents – written in old German Scripts – is today possible. By using one of the public models or a own model, thousands of historical documents can be automatically converted into text.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 model is based on Renovated District Court Records (Fi: Kihlakunnanoikeuksien renovoidut tuomiokirjat, Swe: Häradsrätternas renoverade domböcker) from the years 1809-1870. Models training set consists of 2841 double-pages and the validation set 100 double-pages. Since there were many (dozens) scribes it is a combination of many different handwritings.
The Ground Truth material is picked across Finland from 58 different court districts. Most of the Ground Truth is in Swedish, but there is also some Finnish since from 1850s some of the court districts started to write Court Records in Finnish. Renovated District Court Records are split into two series: Main Records & Notification Records. This model includes mostly Notification Records. Nevertheless the model also works fine with Main Records. This model was created as part of the READ project at National Archives of Finland (NAF). It has been used to transcribe the Notification Records from the years 1809-1870 (all districts). As a result, a search interface has been implemented where you can perform full text searches and browse automatically transcribed documents. The search interface and more information can be found at: https://tuomiokirjat.kansallisarkisto.fi/

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