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# + Transkribus – The Best Idea to Procrastinate I’ve Ever Had

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September 4, 2018

[Stefan Karcher](https://twitter.com/streka), a graduate student at Heidelberg University has written a fascinating blog post explaining how he has been using Transkribus to process nineteenth-century German sermons.

- [Stefan Karcher, Transkribus – The Best Idea to Procrastinate I’ve Ever Had](https://www.infoditex.de/transkribus-the-best-idea-to-procrastinate-ive-ever-had/)

Karcher took the opportunity to train his own Automated Text Recognition models.  He used around 30,000 transcribed words of training data to generate a model that can produce transcripts of his documents with a Character Error Rate of 8-10%.  The blog post notes that these transcripts are a useful and efficient basis for his research and includes a description of how these automated transcripts can be analysed with  [Voyant Tools.](https://voyant-tools.org/)

**Do you want to train your own Automated Text Recognition model?**

- Find out how to get started in our [How to Guide.](https://transkribus.eu/wiki/images/3/34/HowToTranscribe_Train_A_Model.pdf)

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## Keep reading

[![](https://blog.transkribus.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Featured%20image_multilingual%20models%20in%20Transkribus.png?width=1280&height=720&name=Featured%20image_multilingual%20models%20in%20Transkribus.png)

Research Text recognition models

### Breaking the language barrier: 3 multilingual Transkribus research projects

](https://blog.transkribus.org/en/multilingual-ai-text-recognition-model-transkribus?hsLang=en)

[![](https://blog.transkribus.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Text-Titan-II.jpg?width=2406&height=1632&name=Text-Titan-II.jpg)

### Introducing Text Titan II

](https://blog.transkribus.org/en/introducing-text-titan-ii?hsLang=en)

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