eScriptorium is a platform for manual or automated segmentation and text recognition of historical manuscripts and prints.

The software is an open source software developed at the Paris Sciences et Lettres University as part of the projects Scripta[2] and RESILIENCE[3] with contributions from other institutions, partly funded by the EU's Horizon 2020 funding program and a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

[4] Both automatic segmentation and text recognition can be trained using manually created or corrected examples (ground truth).

[5] eScriptorium is built of top of the free OCR software Kraken by Benjamin Kiessling, a derivative of the OCR software OCRopus, which is suitable for handwritten and printed texts and also supports scripts such as Hebrew and Arabic, which are written from right to left.

[6] Comparable programs that offer similar functions to eScriptorium are OCR4All[7] and Transkribus.