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Recognition of PROB 11 wills with Transkribus

The National Archives documents an experiment in handwritten text recognition on PROB 11 wills. Recurrent networks are trained on reference transcriptions, with human intervention for segmentation difficulties and correction.

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Recognition of PROB 11 wills with Transkribus
nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Update · November 7, 2026

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