eScriptorium
This collection brings together 10 source-verified institutional cases involving eScriptorium: Kraken CLI → eScriptorium (1), Manual transcription → eScriptorium (4), Prior OCR → eScriptorium (2), Transkribus / manual → eScriptorium (1), Transkribus → eScriptorium (2). A migration is identified only when the source documents a predecessor or transfer; other cases are classified as implementations or operational adoptions.
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Archives nationales de France
The Archives nationales de France, working with Inria, launched the LECTAUREP project to automatically read Parisian notaries' repertoires — an enormous corpus…
École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE-PSL)
The École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, part of PSL), together with Inria, is the institutional birthplace of eScriptorium — driving the shift from the…
University Library of Mannheim
As part of the OCR-BW initiative in Baden-Württemberg, the University Library of Mannheim adopted eScriptorium as a free, open-source alternative to Transkribus for…
Trinity College Dublin — Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (VRTI), led from Trinity College Dublin, works to digitally reconstruct archives destroyed in the 1922 Four Courts fire. The…
University of Galway
Researchers associated with the University of Galway applied eScriptorium and its Kraken engine to the automatic transcription of Old Georgian manuscripts — a…
Schechter Institutes & National Library of Israel (MiDRASH)
Within the ERC-funded MiDRASH project, the Schechter Institutes and the National Library of Israel set out to extract text from around 30,000 medieval Hebrew,…
Vilnius University — Center for East European Jewish Studies
At Vilnius University's Center for the Study of East European Jewry, Dr Sergii Gurbych developed 'Vilne-Yiddish', a handwritten-text-recognition model for Yiddish…
Universidade de Aveiro
Under the iForal project, researchers at the Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal used eScriptorium and the Kraken engine to build an automated…
University of Geneva
The University of Geneva established the FoNDUE project to build a local, sovereign HTR infrastructure — deliberately moving away from reliance on semi-private…
Princeton University
The Cairo Geniza is a vast trove of medieval manuscripts documenting Jewish life across North Africa and the Middle East. In over 130 years, scholars had manually…