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Transkribus

software and online services for handwritten-text recognition, layout analysis and text structure recognition
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Summary

Transkribus is a software[1]. Transkribus ranks in the top 6% of software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (323 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: palaeography[3]
  • Developer: Q141666724[4]
  • Collection: Text Analysis Portal for Research[5], Social Sciences and Humanities Open Marketplace[6]
  • Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0[7]
  • Has use: optical character recognition[8], handwriting recognition[9], Document Layout Analysis[10], enriching[11], data cleansing[12], creating[13], annotation[14], data recognition[15], natural language processing[16]
  • Official website: https://www.transkribus.org/[17]
  • Described at URL: https://archivalia.hypotheses.org/124394[18], https://tapor.ca/tools/614[19], https://tapor.ca/tools/615[20], https://marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/WZZVaE[21]
  • Readable file format: PAGE-XML[22], ALTO-XML[23]
  • Writable file format: PAGE-XML[24], ALTO-XML[25], TEI/XML[26]
  • Described by source: Transkribus - A Service Platform for Transcription, Recognition and Retrieval of Historical Documents[27]
  • Name: Transkribus[28]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[29]
  • Social media followers: 4582[30], 4137[31]

Why It Matters

Transkribus has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] Transkribus is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Related Entities

handwriting recognition optical character recognition palaeography software

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . tapor.ca. tapor.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . guides.lib.berkeley.edu. Retrieved . guides.lib.berkeley.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. marketplace.sshopencloud.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · ArthurPSmith · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Writable file format → PAGE-XML, ALTO-XML, TEI/XML
    Developer → Q141666724
    Sitelink count → 8
    Official website → https://readcoop.eu/transkribus/, https://www.transkribus.org/
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Developer: Q141666724"
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