During this academic year, the University Library is offering free credits for Transkribus. Transkribus is a tool with which you can automatically transcribe handwritten (historical) documents. You can either use pre-existing text recognition models for a certain type of handwriting, or train your own recognition model to recognize the specific type of writing you are working with. Especially if you train your own models, Transkribus can achieve good results.
All Radboud University students and employees can receive up to a maximum of 1000 free credits, which is good for recognizing around 1000 pages. In return, we will ask the recipients to fill in a feedback form afterwards about their experiences with the tool. After the summer, we will evaluate this pilot and decide whether to offer free Transkribus credits on a structural basis.
Would you like to make use of these free credits, or do you want to know more about Transkribus? Then contact us at RU-Transkribus [at] ru.nl (RU-Transkribus[at]ru[dot]nl). We can transfer the credits to any Transkribus-account that uses an @ru.nl mail address. You can also contact us for help and advice with using the tool.