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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With the help of Transkribus accessing and searching a large number of historical documents – written in old German Scripts – is today possible. By using one of the public models or a own model, thousands of historical documents can be automatically converted into text.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 model is a combination of handwritten private letters from World War II Finland (Tampere University Folklife Archives) and handwritten military unit diaries of the Finnish army of World War II (The National Archives of Finland). The model was trained by DIGIKÄKI – Digital History and Handwritten Sources project in Tampere University and the National Archives of Finland. For more information on DIGIKÄKI project, see: https://www.tuni.fi/en/research/digikaki-digital-history-and-handwritten-sources

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