Hello! I have a bunch of Church records that I got from Matricula Online (a website that stores church registers like books of birth, marriage and death). They are from 16th all the way to early 20th century. I would like to store their contents in a .txt file. Records are written in cursive in a mix between Slovene and German. Here’s a random page so you can see what I mean. I have a GTX 1060 6GB so naturally I would like a model that I can run on my computer without major performance issues. What would be the best model to do this? Thank you in advance!
Basically, this task can be performed using VLM, but recognizing actual handwritten characters and text is quite difficult. I recommend trying out various models online and using the ones that work well locally. With VRAM savings through quantization, there are models that can run with 6GB.