Gamechanger: Can AI accurately transcribe primary source documents? – University of Virginia Library

‘There are more than 13 million manuscripts held and maintained by UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library (along with hundreds of thousands of maps, rare books, photographs, broadsides, and more) but the majority of those documents have not been digitized or transcribed. This is typical in the world of special collections libraries; the National Archives online catalog, for example, contains more than 455 million digitized pages of records, but that’s just a small percentage of the 13.5 billion total pages held there.’

Link: https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/gamechanger-can-ai-accurately-transcribe-primary-source-documents