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With the help of Transkribus accessing and searching a large number of historical documents – written in old German Scripts – is today possible. By using one of the public models or a own model, thousands of historical documents can be automatically converted into text.
This is a model trained on German handwriting of the (early) 19th century Prussian administration. It is based on the Immediatszeitungsberichte of the Rheinprovinz in the years 1816 & 1817. The training material is based on the handwritings of different scribes, texts are mostly in Kurrent.
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.