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eScriptorium is an excellent open-source piece of software, made in Paris, for teams that have an engineer.

eScriptoriumwondarchive
Who, whereEPHE – Université PSL, Paris; Kraken engineCompany, France
Pricefree — plus a server, its administration, and someone to train the modelsfrom €39.99 incl. VAT a year, ready to use
Segmentation and recognitionvery fine, line by line, trainablewhole page, no training
Manuscriptyes, with a trained modelread by extra-strength reread, no training
Translation—included
Depositing trip photos, straightening, duplicates—yes
IIIF import (Gallica)yescoming soon
ExportALTO, PAGE, TEIopen formats; TEI coming soon
Where the images areon your own serverOVHcloud, in France

When to choose which

A lab with an engineer, a server and a consistent handwritten fonds gains by installing eScriptorium: it controls everything and pays nothing per use. A lone researcher, or a team with no engineer, with hand-held photos and a typewritten fonds, has neither the time nor the server: that’s our case.

See it on your own pages

A hundred pages transcribed and translated, for a year, no card required.