Digital transcription tools
The following links and projects provide information on ATR or different ways of digitally transcribing sources. Some work with machine transcription (machine reading, Automatic Text Recognition), others link manually executed transcriptions with the corresponding image.
The German Historical Institute in Paris has produced a video introduction to the topic of ATR. It explains the most important terms.
This tool was developed by the University of Würzburg. The main focus of the tool is to transcribe historical imprinted and handwritten texts. The transcriptions are reliable and the platform is usable for people with some basic knowledge of computer science. Here you will find additional links about the quickstart, an introductory video and the possibilities and limitations of the tool.
Developed at the LMU Munich.
Developed at the Walter J. Ong Center for Digital Humanities at Saint Louise University.
Developed as part of DARIAH-DE.
Developed in connection with the virtual research platform FuD at the University of Trier.
Developed as part of a fellowship at the ETH Library Lab, transcriptiones is now affiliated with the Department of History at the University of Basel. transcriptiones is a crowdsourcing platform with the aim of eliminating the need for multiple transcriptions of the same source.
Transcribus was developed at the University of Innsbruck. It is a platform which enables automatic transcription of historical handwritten and printed sources. The platform offers many different tools and support mechanisms, to fasciliate the automatic transcription of researcher's or student's own projects. To use the platform you do not need any prior knowledge in computer science.