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I've worked with Transkribus before (I first used it a few years ago to transcribe a very large journal from 1790). I would definitely take a look at it and see if it will work for your needs.<br>
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Guestbooks can be difficult because there are so many different hands represented in the book. Test a few pages and see if it will work. It will do most of the work for you but you will still need someone to review and edit the transcripts. From it you can
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<b>Subject:</b> [BCMA] Handwritten Text Recognition recommendations?</font>
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<div><font face="Script MT Bold" size="4" style="font-size:14pt"><b style="">Hello museum friends!</b></font></div>
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<div>Hope you are doing fantastic, and that you survived the summer busyness ☀️</div>
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<div>We are working with the Tetrahedron Outdoor Club on the digitization of a large collection of mountain cabin guestbooks from Tetrahedron Park. These guest books contain handwritten messages from people who have stayed at each cabin, touching on weather
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<div>Has anyone worked with handwritten text recognition (HTR) scanning software in the digitization of archival documents? In an ideal world, we would love to digitize these guestbooks and allow users to search for familiar names in the scanned documents,
but HTR technology is new to us.</div>
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<div>Anyone have any tips or recommendations on software/hardware to explore?</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
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