Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI
Medievalists can now access automated transcriptions of 32,763 digitised medieval manuscripts, produced in just four months as part of a project called CoMMA—a large-scale corpus designed to make manuscript texts searchable and analysable at a scale that would be impossible to tackle by hand.
medievalists.net/2026/01/32000…
Original paper:
inria.hal.science/hal-05299220
The CoMMA website:
comma.inria.fr/homepage
Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI - Medievalists.net
A new AI-powered tool that has transcribed over 32,000 medieval manuscripts in four months, giving researchers a vast, searchable corpus and new ways to examine historical sources.Medievalists.net