Overview of ATR/HTR systems

Made for: AI Meets Humanities and Social Sciences conference , 23rd-25th June 2025, Vienna, Austria

Author of the overview: Jan Odstrčilík

Last update: 16th December 2025

Drag and drop systems

No configuration, no custom models, intended for processing of single pages.

Simple systems

Simple installation,no manual creation of ground truth, no training of custom models.

Full systems but without custom model training

Manual creation of groud truth and manual corrections of automatically recognized text but no custom models.

Full Integrated Transcription Environments

Possibility to train (and use) custom models in the graphical user interface (GUI).

Command-line tools

Programming skills required.

Other similar command-line tools: PyLaia , Tesseract , Calamari .

Visual language models

SmartSkriptor

Uses Gemini 3

Made by Anna Michalcová