TrOCR Large Fine-Tuned for Czech Historical Vital Records
This is a fine-tuned TrOCR-Large model (microsoft/trocr-large-handwritten) specializing in Handwritten Text Recognition of 19th-century Czech vital records (birth, marriage, death registers).
The model was trained as part of the Master's Thesis: "Automated Transcription and Search in Historical Records Using Handwritten Text Recognition".
It was developed on an original, manually annotated dataset of historical Czech scripts and is designed to be used inside the full historical document processing pipeline (layout analysis → text detection → recognition → post-processing).
For detailed performance metrics, evaluation, and the full pipeline description, please refer to the thesis text.
Citation
@misc{palkovic2025htr,
AUTHOR = {Palkovič, Radoslav},
TITLE = {Automated Transcription and Search in Historical Records Using Handwritten Text Recognition},
YEAR = {2025},
TYPE = {Master Thesis},
INSTITUTION = {Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics},
LOCATION = {Brno},
SUPERVISOR = {Michal Batko}
}
