alt-text test

experiment setting up an alt-text creation project

Project by Ben W. Brumfield

Ann Smith Letters

Letters written by Ann Smith during WW2.

Project by Josie Brumfield
CitSci 2021 Workshop

CitSci 2021 Workshop

"From Cursive to Database" workshop for the 2021 Citizen Science Alliance virtual meeting.

Project by Ben W. Brumfield

East Civil War Letters

The East documents were found in an abandoned building near Cherrystone Creek in the early 1970s, and include one empty envelope addressed to John C. East and one letter (with envelope) from George W. East to Thomas C. East. George W. East enlisted in the 53rd VA Infantry, Company I, when he...

Project by Ben W. Brumfield
Handwritten Text Recognition Sandbox

Handwritten Text Recognition Sandbox

What is this? This is a “playground” to explore how different handwritten text recognition models work with different types of documents. Using FromThePage’s “AI-Assist” feature you can get an overlay of the machine generated text over each page image, making it easy to see where...

Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

Diary and account books kept by Jeremiah White Graves (1801-1884) in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

Project by Ben W. Brumfield

Julia Brumfield Diaries

Julia Ann Craddock Brumfield kept a diary from 1915 until 1936. Some time after her death, those diaries were distributed among her many grandchildren. Over the last twenty years, nearly half of those diaries have been reassembled to be shared among Julia's descendants. The project is...

Project by Ben W. Brumfield

Other WAAC Letters

WAAC letters or postcards.

Project by Josie Brumfield

QSA Frontier War Records

Experimental Project that compares transcribing documents with a paid transcriber, with out of the box Transkribus, and with a combination of Transkribus results and a paid transcriber.

Project by Ben W. Brumfield