The AI transcribed over 28,000 documents for our history project

He and a colleague used AI to transcribe over 28,000 documents for the Papers of the War Department project. They wrote up how they did it on the RRCHNM blog.

How it works

The AI transcribes over 28,000 documents for the Papers of the War Department project
He and a colleague describe the work on the RRCHNM blog

Why it’s worth knowing

Transcribing 28,000 historical documents by hand would take years. The AI did the transcriptions for the project.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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