r/Transcription • • Dec 17 '25

Community Rule Update: AI-Generated Transcriptions Are No Longer Allowed

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Hello everyone,

We want to let you know about an important change to our rule regarding AI use in r/Transcription .

What the rule used to allow:

Previously, our rules permitted the use of AI or OCR tools as long as the user disclosed their use and manually reviewed and corrected the results before posting. This was intended to allow AI as a supporting tool, not a replacement for human transcription.

What is changing:

Effective immediately, AI-generated transcriptions are no longer allowed in any form. This includes: OCR output, Handwriting recognition software, Generative AI produced transcriptions, or any other AI assisted transcriptions based primarily on machine output.

Why the change?

We feel that our community has grown to a point where we no longer need the limited assistance AI transcriptions may have once provided. r/Transcription now has a strong base of knowledgeable members who consistently offer fast, accurate, and genuinely human interpretations of hard to read text.

Any transcriptions that are clearly AI will be removed, and we encourage users to report any transcriptions that you suspect is AI.

Thank you.

- Mod Team.


r/Transcription • • 1h ago

Transcribed✔️ One more from a Luxembourger

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This was a song he wrote around the beginning of the 20th century, expressing his feelings about being a "Germanic" immigrant in the Midwest during WWI.

Nun ?? das müssen alle

Thanks in advance.


r/Transcription • • 6h ago

English Transcription Request Can you please help me decipher these recipes.

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Please expect a lot of posts here, as I'm currently turning my grandmothers recipe book into a typed out version and i'm really struggling with some of the handwriting.

Can you please help me deciper the top two recipe, what im assuming is maybe "brownie munchers"? and "coffee kisses".

thank you in advance


r/Transcription • • 4h ago

Other/Unknown Language Transcription Request Can anyone decipher the possible name of the artist written on the art I bought?

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r/Transcription • • 9h ago

English Transcription Request Can anyone decipher this comment that one of our panelists left on our paper?

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Hello there, fellow users! First time posting here, and I need help in deciphering this comment...

Context: On October 17 of this year, we had our 2nd and final Capstone Defense. After getting grilled on our defense concluded, the 3 copies of our manuscripts that we sent to the panelist left comments on revising... And just today, we got it back so that we can work on revising the whole paper.

There was one particular comment that we don't know, one of our groupmates said "Agrued", I said "Hdruel" (it's quite confusing, honestly.) I also attached a second photo of it for a closer look.

I hope you could help us in deciphering (and especially before the end of October 21, where we'll have to finalize most of our stuff before bookbinding it.)

Anyways, have a good day ahead, fellow users!


r/Transcription • • 1h ago

German/Deutsch Trancription Request I need help making sense of a word

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Would someone be able to tell me what this 3rd word is? What I see is

"Obs Suende ist ???r einerlei"

It's handwritten by a Luxembourger, my Grandfather, around the early 1900s.

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r/Transcription • • 10h ago

Other/Unknown Language Transcription Request Dutch historical wedding contract

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Hello, I hope this is the right community to ask. The following text is a wedding contract from 1625. The language is Dutch and the contract is between Frederik Hendrik of Orange-Nassau and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, their witnesses are Fredrik V. of the Palatinate and his wife Elisabeth Stuart.

I am able to understand dutch, but I cannot read the manuscript so I would be very greatful if someone can decipher/transcribe the text. Im sorry if it is too long, I hope its not.

You can find the contract also on the website of the Collection from the Royal Netherlands (you find it under A14-II-2), thats where I found this Scan, if the quality isnt good enough. Im surprised there is no official transcription to be found, so I really hope someone of you can help out. Thank you!

p.s. I have also contacted the collection, but no answer yet

ed. another witness is Maurice/Mauritz of Orange, the brother of Frederik Hendrik


r/Transcription • • 10h ago

Russian/Pусский Transcription Request I need help with transcribing this document

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r/Transcription • • 21h ago

English Transcription Request Can anyone help decipher these signatures of WW1 officers?

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They're inside a cigarette case given to my great uncle. G. Penrose was easy, but the others I'm struggling with.


r/Transcription • • 21h ago

English Transcription Request Help Reading Mother's Name

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Crossposting this here in hopes of getting more eyes on this!


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

English Transcription Request Found in a copy of The Old Front Line

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From what I can read, I believe a soldier left some of his own thoughts on the war


r/Transcription • • 22h ago

English Transcription Request Vintage American Flag Inscription

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Hello, I saw this flad at an antique mall and say faded writing on it. I love provenance to items I collect. Does anyone know what its saying?


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

French/Français Transcription Request Please help with the handwriting.

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r/Transcription • • 1d ago

Russian/Pусский Transcription Request Help me transcribe this old document

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I need information about persons with surname Malec


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

Question Meaning of these two symbols/designs from a Post Carolingian Manuscript? - KBR Ms. 10066-77 Miscellany (France/Belgium, c. 900 - 1000)

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The entire thing can be viewed here: https://uurl.kbr.be/1332800

First one is from folio 132, second from folio 180.

Would love to know from someone who is familiar with Carolingian/Post Carolingian era miniscule what these could mean, whether they're capital letters, or just serve a decorative purpose or something else.


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

English Transcription Request Invoice

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r/Transcription • • 1d ago

Other/Unknown Language Transcription Request Help with transcription

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For genealogical research, I'm trying to find the name and surname of the mather's person on this 1915 death certificate in Rome (Luigi Ovis). The text is in Italian.


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

English Transcription Request Is anyone able to tell me what this signature says?

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r/Transcription • • 1d ago

English Transcription Request Postcard found at grandmothers house

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What I can make out I apologize for quality.

My dearest brother I thank you for the ___ you sent the 1st___ ___. I wish to ___ america ___ whom you’ll ___ ___ and the ___ ____ president will be _____. Tell your father ___ ____ to me and ____ ____. God thank you and yourbfamily


r/Transcription • • 1d ago

German/Deutsch Trancription Request Help with text on backs of photos

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r/Transcription • • 2d ago

French/Français Transcription Request Old French archive i found but can’t transcript it…

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r/Transcription • • 2d ago

Other/Unknown Language Transcription Request Help me transcribe fragment of the document

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text is in polish, I only need fragment about Józef Malec


r/Transcription • • 2d ago

German/Deutsch Trancription Request Need help with this old Marriage Record

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Hello everyone,
I hope somebody can help me with this Marriage Record from 1674.

What I can understand:

Den 26. July zu St. Gotth. Cop. (…)
Hanß Engelhardt (…) Engelhardt
(…) ehel. Sohn
(…) Maria (…)
Zur Zeit (…) ehel. Tochter
Von (…)

This Entry is of the St. Gotthard Church in Thalmässing / Bavaria. Maybe this can help identify the last Line, because I think this is Marias home Town (?)

Thank you very much!


r/Transcription • • 2d ago

English Transcription Request WWII letter about my great-grandpa

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My great-grandfather Cecil Sr. was born in Kent, UK, and was orphaned at age 2. At the age of 11 he was sent to Fegan Farm School after his foster mother died. He was later sent to Canada as part of the British Home Child program and was essentially an indentured servant/farm hand.
He later had 4 children, and was killed in action 2 weeks after WWII ended at the age of 27 when the tank/truck (we’re unclear which vehicle) he was driving went over a land mine.
One of his sons, and my great-uncle Jimmy, was later buried alive in a gravel pit he was working in at the age of 27.
So sad

This is a letter I found on the Canadian Legion website and I believe it is from his foster-sister and I would love if someone could tell me what it says. I can get a few words here and there but not enough
TIA


r/Transcription • • 3d ago

English Transcription Request Help deciphering please: Cause of death—what does it say?

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