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# Transcribing with Transkribus

[Transkribus](https://transkribus.eu/Transkribus/) is a means (still in development) of automating the transcription process that is typical for medievalists and historians of more recent periods. Anything that is a manuscript or is handwritten remains difficult for computer-assisted reading software, but images of handwriting are being used (by Transkribus and other projects) to train computers to assist in this process. Whether you're a historian or an archivist seeking to crowd-source transcriptions, Transkribus can help you. 

To get a sense of the first steps in using Transkribus follow their [How to Use Transkribus](https://transkribus.eu/wiki/images/7/77/How_to_use_TRANSKRIBUS_-_10_steps.pdf) guide. 

Take a look at the panel on the left-hand side and click **Login**. Use your Transkribus credentials (Email address and password).

{% hint style="info" %}
Note:\
Prior to this step you must give your username (the email you signed up with) to [Marc](/digitizing-medieval-archives/about.md#contact-us) so that you can be added to the collection. Otherwise when you login there will be no documents to view.
{% endhint %}

You should now be logged in. To access this course's collection, click on **Collections** and select the collection named "Ottawa, ARC, Carleton University, Medieval Folios". What will appear is a list of the folios uploaded to this collection.

Double-click on your folio to open it. Depending on your computer and the size of the scan, this could take a few seconds.

Once your document is ready, navigate to the **Tools** tab. \
With Current Transcript, Find Text Regions, and Find Lines in Text Regions selected, hit **Run**. \
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This process will take a few moments. When eventually prompted, **refresh the image** and you will see that Transkribus has generated a text space or text spaces (green) for you. Within this text space are also lines (blue). \
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You may begin transcribing now by selecting a line.

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