Mia

'The Swedish National Archives makes one million handwritten documents searchable' https://riksarkivet.se/inlagg/riksarkivet-gor-en-miljon-handskrivna-dokument-sokbara - the Universal Viewer plus AI text transcription!

Congratulations to everyone at the Riksarkivet who worked so hard on this! #AI4LAM #UniversalViewer

Riksarkivet gör en miljon handskrivna dokument sökbara

I ett banbrytande steg mot att göra historisk information i arkiven mer tillgänglig har Riksarkivet gjort över en miljon handskrivna dokument till sökbar text med hjälp av artificiell intelligens.

Riksarkivet
Apr 30 at 3:14pmWeb
Show threadJuho MäntysaloMay 1

@mia

One of my history teachers at uni said -- only about five years ago, referring specially to Riksarkivet -- that this is something that might never be possible.

Show threadMiaMay 1
@iju it still blows my mind! HTR went from being too hard to quite hard then a bit fiddly and now it's ordinary! It's still not perfect in all cases, but the progress is incredible
Show threadJuho MäntysaloMay 1

@mia

Also makes me feel a bit better about not quite getting hang of reading the Swedish scribes' handwriting. I could KIND OF do it in Finnish and English, but Swedish was always a coin toss.