this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2024
9 points (100.0% liked)

Artificial Intelligence

1349 readers
31 users here now

Welcome to the AI Community!

Let's explore AI passionately, foster innovation, and learn together. Follow these guidelines for a vibrant and respectful community:

You can access the AI Wiki at the following link: AI Wiki

Let's create a thriving AI community together!

founded 1 year ago
 

Hello, I have some letters handwritten by my great-grandfather from the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1943/1944. Few of them have been transcribed by hand. They are quite a lot and really not easy to read (you can understand the situation) also if the pen trace is good and well preserved.

I am wondering if some of these new AI tools can help me transcribe them. I don't expect an automatic transcription, but any help would be welcome 😊

top 2 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Well, you could try some of the established services:

They all want you to sign up but offer some free service. Try one of the letters you already have a transcription for, and see how well they fare. I don't have the slightest clue if they can read Sütterlinschrift or whatever your great-grandfather used to write in. You'd take a picture or scan, upload the file to the chatbot and add an instruction to transcribe the handwriting. And keep us posted if you do.

[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

No direct help from my side but I wanted to wish you good luck!

It would perhaps help others to help you if you briefly outlined what you tried already and where it strugglesI e in theory chatgpt can transcribe and I think so can Claude. If you can give an example page even better.

If you use an already manually transcribed page you can even make a quick diff to estimate quality.

Again, good luck!