Artificial intelligence is being used at the University of Innsbruck, part of the EU's READ project, to automatically transcribe previously unintelligible historical documents, and make the system ...

Using artificial intelligence, computers can decipher handwritten texts and make them readable for everyone. The Transkribus platform, co-developed at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, makes this ...

U of T researchers train AI to read difficult-to-decipher medieval texts Researchers at U of T and at University College, London are training software, called Transkribus, to read and transcribe ...

Decades-old challenge solved: AI models can now transcribe varied historical handwriting that once required specialized training or software. Unlocking hidden archives: Collections once inaccessible ...

When I sat down with bell hooks’ personal journals at an archive at Berea College in Kentucky, I expected an intimate peek into her private thoughts, her voice before the editing. What I got instead ...

In the last two decades, mass digitization has dramatically changed the landscape of scholarly research. The ability to search digital transcriptions of sources for specific keywords saves valuable ...