FolioTranscribe

Handwritten Text Recognition for Historical Documents
Beta · AI-Powered HTR
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Transcribe your first 10 folios free — no account or credit card needed. After that, then just 30p per folio — saving hours of expert transcription work. Full Word export with citation headers included in your free folios.

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📜 Archival-Grade HTR

FolioTranscribe uses state-of-the-art AI vision models to read handwritten historical documents — letters, account books, ledgers, legal papers — with sensitivity to period orthography and abbreviations.

🏛 Citation-Ready Output

Every exported document carries a full archival header — archive, collection, series, box, folio, and date — automatically formatted to support academic citation and research documentation standards.

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