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@leotranscribes.bsky.social
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Leo transcribes handwritten historical documents instantly, helping you turn your unwieldy manuscripts into an organized, searchable digital library. Try it for free with 10 credits every month at tryleo.ai

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
To the risk of being cancelled here on Bluesky, I'm sharing an interview with @leotranscribes.bsky.social on using LLMs in historical research. I hope to have sufficiently highlighted the necessary precautions. Glad to read your thoughts on the matter!
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Thiago Krause on HTR, AI Agents and Archival Discovery
A historian working across 100+ archives on how HTR and AI agents surface documents no catalogue indexes — and why he now reads more manuscripts, not fewer.
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A scribe’s effort to correct an omission - The words that were accidentally left out are pulled along by one man who passes them to another who waits between the fourth and fifth lines to receive them - c. 1300, Walters Ms. W.102, f. 39v
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
One has to admire the hubris! I find @leotranscribes.bsky.social‘s idea of creating a huge and free-repository of transcribed documents, and I’m proud to be a part of it. Expect about 80,000 images/transcriptions from 30 or so archives by the end of next year (and that’s just me!).
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Leo Collections: Our Plan to Build a Universal Archive
Leo Collections is a crowdsourced, machine-readable archive of the world's textual past—gathering, transcribing, and connecting scattered documentary heritage.
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Transcribed over 7,000 folios of eighteenth-century merchant letters with @leotranscribes.bsky.social. Now I just need to read them... 😅
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Archives Portal Europe @archivesportal.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We are pleased to share this grant from the @leotranscribes.bsky.social startup, issuing up to 100k credits for free documents transcriptions, all info here www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/the-leo...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 30/09/2025
How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive? In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️
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Changing The Record
How has paperwork served over time as a radical tool for empowerment and change?
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I've been experimenting with Leo LLM-based transcriptions for a couple of months, and applied for this awesome grant. I got it (thanks, Jon!) and now I'm going to experiment some more. Will post some examples in this thread to give people an idea of how it works.
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Leo 🦁 @leotranscribes.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🚀 We’re offering up to 100,000 free credits (worth $15,000) for students, researchers, and archives to use Leo, our AI platform for transcribing historical documents. The only condition? You'll have to make the transcripts openly available (CC0) within 24 months. blog.tryleo.ai/2025/09/05/l...
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Leo Transcription Grants: apply for up to 100,000 free credits
We’re offering up to 100,000 free credits for students, academics, and archives to use Leo, our AI-powered transcription and document management platform Leo is a web app designed for histori…
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
@leotranscribes.bsky.social is really interesting: as far as I can tell, they trained a LLM in some way that’s way more reliable than chatbots. The result has been very good so far, and it doesn’t require specific models. It feels more like magic than Transkribus, but I’m generally impressed.
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Leo 🦁 @leotranscribes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Big news! 🦁 Leo won a $50,000 Emergent Ventures grant. We’re using it to boost accuracy, expand training data, add semantic search, and introduce translation, summarization, and interpretation tools for researchers. More details: blog.tryleo.ai/2025/08/06/l...
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Leo wins Emergent Ventures grant to accelerate development and growth
We’re excited to announce that Leo has won an Emergent Ventures grant worth $50,000 to support the growth of the platform in the coming months. Leo is an all-in-one transcription and document…
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Leo 🦁 @leotranscribes.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"Google served up Transkribus and Pen-to-Print but neither worked for me. Somewhere in those results was Leo. It transcribed the first nine pages nearly perfectly and so I went ahead and transcribed the rest of the diary." blog.tryleo.ai/2025/07/23/i...
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How Leo helped transcribe a forgotten Victorian diary
When Michael Naylor tackled the last papers he’d inherited from his father, he found a leather-bound, green notebook in nineteenth-century handwriting and packed with pressed leaves. It belonged to…
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Seth Perlow @sethperlow.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Recently had the pleasure of interviewing the founders of @leotranscribes.bsky.social and trying their platform, which is *very* effective with tricky manuscripts. If you’re doing a transcription project, check them out! Easier and more accurate than other common HTR tools today.
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Leo 🦁 @leotranscribes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We’re excited to launch our most advanced model yet. ATR-1 sets a new benchmark for automated text recognition, transcribing handwritten and printed text with unprecedented accuracy and reliability. blog.tryleo.ai/2025/06/20/i...
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Introducing ATR-1 — our most advanced text recognition model yet
We’re excited to launch our most advanced model yet. ATR-1 sets a new benchmark for automated text recognition, transcribing handwritten and printed text with unprecedented accuracy and reliability…
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I'm reading @bhgreeley.bsky.social for @sethrockman.bsky.social's Slavery and Finance workshop, and Greeley mentioned this AI-transcription tool. It's impressive, if expensive. I have never seen such perfect automated transcriptions before. Have to test it with worse hands now. www.tryleo.ai/
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