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An animation shows an AI-powered system called From Numbers to Names, which identifies Holocaust victims in photographs.

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Identifying Faces of History: From Numbers to Names Uses AI to Identify Holocaust Victims

From Numbers to Names matches individuals to faces in publicly available images related to the genocide of European Jews between 1941 and 1945.

Transkribus transcribing centuries-old letters and manuscripts

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Written by Quill, Read by Computer: An AI system for reading historical handwriting

The secrets of history are locked in troves of handwritten documents. Now a machine learning platform is making them amenable to digital search. Transkribus is transcribing centuries-old records en masse and making them available to scholars worldwide.