Progress in the transcription of historical manuscripts documents

SUMMARY: The study focuses on the progress in the transcription of historical written heritage in the Czech Republic and Slovakia since 2020. It highlights research activities, experiments and results achieved between 2020 and 2024 in the context of the Transkribus platform within the SKRIPTOR project. It also mentions Czech research projects from the Brno University of Technology, which resulted in the PERO transcription tool. In addition, it provides information about the latest transcription models available on the Transkribus platform. The study also describes the procedures and experiments in creating models of ten different Czech historical manuscript documents, which were carried out by students Lukáš Němec and Vojtěch Říha as part of the 2024 Student Grant Competition project at the Silesian University in Opava. The study also includes a brief description of the development of a transcription model for typewritten documents, created by Klára Pohlová as part of the SGS 2023 project.

KEYWORDS: transcription models, historical manuscripts, transcription of Czech documents, transcription of Slovak documents, Transkribus platform

prof. PhDr. Dušan Katuščák, PhD. (ORCID 0000-0001-7444-1077), Mgr. Klára Pohlová, Bc. Lukáš Němec, BcA. et Bc. Vojtěch Říha / Slezská univerzita v Opavě, Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta, Ústav bohemistiky a knihovnictví (Silesian University in Opava, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Institute of the Czech Language and Library Science), Masarykova třída 343/37, 746 01 Opava