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Transcribes, translates and indexes photos of archival documents (typewritten, printed, Fraktur, handwritten) for historians, PhD students and genealogists.
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wondarchive is an online service for historians, PhD students, archivists and genealogists who photograph documents in archive reading rooms and cannot read or retype them all. What it does Transcribes typewritten, printed, Fraktur and handwritten pages from ordinary phone or camera photos,...
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wondarchive's answer
It does the whole job on archive photos, not just the reading: - straightens the photos taken in the reading room and files them by collection, call number and folio; - transcribes typewritten, printed, Fraktur and handwritten pages, without training a model; - translates each page into your language (14 languages), with the context of the neighbouring pages; - extracts names, places and dates, and makes the whole collection searchable; - always shows the photo next to the text, so every passage can be checked and cited.
wondarchive's answer
Choose it if you have photographed a collection in the reading room and need to read, translate and search it, rather than produce a line-by-line edition of a single hand: - no model to train: manuscripts are read by an enhanced review, print and typescript in plain reading; - translation included, page by page, which most transcription tools leave out; - images hosted in France and never used to train models; - 100 pages free for a year, then from €39.99 incl. VAT a year for 2,500 pages transcribed. For a scholarly edition built on a model trained on one hand, Transkribus or eScriptorium remain the right tools.
wondarchive's answer
Researchers who work from photos of archival documents: - historians and PhD students back from an archive trip with thousands of photos; - genealogists with parish registers, civil records or family letters, often in a language or a script they read poorly (old German Kurrent, Latin, Fraktur); - research labs and funded projects sharing a common collection.
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