eScriptorium provides a professional environment where human expertise meets machine learning. We have built a dedicated workspace designed specifically for the unique challenges of historical data, allowing you to produce pristine transcriptions and powerful custom AI models.
An Ergonomic Transcription Environment
A text editor built for history, not just data entry.
eScriptorium offers an advanced, ergonomic interface optimized for speed and philological accuracy while handling the intricacies of historical documents:
- Image-Text Linking: Every line of text is visually connected to its location on the original image, ensuring you never lose context while correcting.
- Complex Script Support: Full native support for Right-to-Left (RTL) scripts like Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac, as well as bi-directional texts.
- The Virtual Keyboard: A fully customizable virtual keyboard allows you to map rare characters, ligatures, and scribal abbreviations to simple keystrokes, essential for transcriptions where Unicode fall short.
Training & Fine-Tuning
Tailor the AI to your specific research questions.
Generic models can only go so far. eScriptorium empowers you to take control of the recognition process by creating models that understand your specific material.
- Fine-Tuning: Improve accuracy without starting from scratch. Take an existing model from the community and fine-tune it on your own documents to adapt it to a specific hand, font, or dialect.
- Custom Layout Analysis: Train the system to recognize the unique structure of your documents, from marginalia and glosses to complex tabular data.
- Research-Driven Output: Whether you need a normalized reading for search or a diplomatic transcription preserving every abbreviation, you can train the model to output exactly what your project requires.