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 😊

  • kerbits@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 month ago

    Thank you very much for your test. I tried to load (ChatGPT) another letter and the initial part was so good that I was really surprised, but other parts of the transcription was non-sense. Anyway, as you said, it will be a good starting point at least to understand some words and sentences that can make the rest of the text more understandable