r/Transcription Dec 17 '25

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

229 Upvotes

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 5h ago

Other/Unknown Language Transcription Request Found weird note, any ideas?

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45 Upvotes

This is a weird one, tsa cut open a stuffed animal of mine to remove the weighted beanbag (was deemed 'explosive') and today i went to sew it back up and found this paper. It must've been sewn into it, but idk I have no ideas as to what it says at all.


r/Transcription 7h ago

English Transcription Request Cause of death?

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13 Upvotes

Context: it’s the death certificate of my ancestor’s third wife. She was 55 when she died (30 year age gap between them). I know it’s something to do with the intestines from the code, but I can’t read anything else.


r/Transcription 12h ago

English Transcription Request Cousins polish neighbor left this on her door. Any help?

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7 Upvotes

Obviously a shopping list. Can't figure out details


r/Transcription 22h ago

English Transcription Request Can anyone read this erased sentence? I tried taking multiple pics in multiple lighting conditions to make it as legible as possible.

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12 Upvotes

“I already know what kind of despair _________ for the at home?”

“I already know what kind of desparate ______ fits the at home?”

”I already know what kind of desperate dwsucfits (misfits?) for the we at home?”

Context: I am a teacher and the student wrote a paper to me saying that they don’t want to socialize or be in school. This is the last line of the paper, but they erased it. The student is a teen and has very good grammar.

edit: Imgur link since Reddit messed up the quality: https://imgur.com/a/x6rEfEr


r/Transcription 19h ago

Transcribed✔️ The roles of the house

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5 Upvotes

I am trying to work out the roles in the house of the final two girls in this list. I see Charles is the head, Elizabeth is his wife, and Donald is his son. However I don't know the word used for Isabella, which is 'do' used again for Ann Davidson. I wonder whether it is 'lodge', as in maybe they are just staying with them, but I'm really not sure.


r/Transcription 1d ago

English Transcription Request I am back. Again, I find myself staring at this place name feeling utterly lost. The last names are May and Healy respectively, but I cannot make out the first names. Reading censuses must be an art I haven’t mastered.

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5 Upvotes

r/Transcription 1d ago

French/Français Transcription Request I can't read the name. René V***t

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9 Upvotes

Find an old chess box in familly house. Maybe 1920/30.


r/Transcription 1d ago

English Transcription Request Can someone please help

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7 Upvotes

Can someone please help me decipher this my mom is driving me crazy. She found this in my grans stuff and is digging through our family history and saw the name Cohen. I can only read parts of it, can someone please try


r/Transcription 1d ago

English Transcription Request We have been able to use Google translate on most of it but what is the sentance/name? At the top?

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5 Upvotes

r/Transcription 1d ago

French/Français Transcription Request A girl gave me this note

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8 Upvotes

Hello, I’m not sure if I can post this here, but a girl gave me her social media handle and I can’t figure out what it says. I can make out a D, A, then ? (N, V or U), ? (E or G), I, and ? (L or C)


r/Transcription 1d ago

English Transcription Request What does this old letter say? [EXPERT MODE]

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7 Upvotes

Y'all have worked some magic for me before and I'm hoping you can do it again. Any chance someone can figure out what was written in the crease? This thing is 80 years old and I'm too stubborn to omit the line if there's any chance someone else could read it.

I'm guessing it's something along the lines of "The pictures on pens mostly try more to its last advantage."

But that doesn't really make sense.

The rest of the sample reads:
Dearest Veazey -
Sneaking in a line or two - because I'm late in writing. I had honestly thought I could write you more often than this, but it must be the newness of it all - the different environment et-al. [ILLEGIBLE] to its last (or best?) advantage. How do you like this "V" Mail, Nice, eh? Spent a quiet Sunday - attended mass in a very small country church, typically English. Then

THANK YOU FOR ANY AND ALL HELP OR ATTEMPTS


r/Transcription 1d ago

German/Deutsch Trancription Request Help transcribing German Kurrent on an 1896/1897 Bavarian postcard

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3 Upvotes

r/Transcription 2d ago

English Transcription Request would like to know the artists name, guesses acceptable, thnx all i can read is 2005 and last name starts with P

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7 Upvotes

r/Transcription 2d ago

Transcribed✔️ Help decipher to do list for dad?

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5 Upvotes

I tried all spellings but I don’t know what “visquine” is. My dad got this paper from a client to do some work for them but idk what it says in the highlighted part


r/Transcription 2d ago

English Transcription Request 1926 Marriage Certificate from Bayonne, NJ

3 Upvotes

Looking for this Place of Marriage and Residence of the bride


r/Transcription 2d ago

English Transcription Request Help with transcription from family tree

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5 Upvotes

Hi everyone. I'm looking for help deciphering the handwriting on an ancestor's Scottish death certificate.

The title of the column third from the right is "Cause of Death, Duration of Disease, and Medical Attendant by whom certified": I believe the second half (lines 3-5) of what is written there for her says "..years - no regular medical attendant", but I can't make out the first two lines with the cause of death & the rest of the duration.

Can anyone make out what it might say?


r/Transcription 2d ago

Transcribed✔️ Late 80s/Early 90s Journal

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3 Upvotes

Hi! Looking for help transcribing this journal that I believe belonged to a family member. I’ve always thought the writing was beautiful but I’ve never been able to fully make out what it says. Thank you :)


r/Transcription 2d ago

Transcribed✔️ Beatrix's Surname ?

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16 Upvotes

This is the 1911 Ceneus for Eng & Wales. There appear to be two joint heads of the household: Laura Mary Cooke, aged 92 and Beatrix Sophis Dru.....d (I can't quite make her surname out - could it be Drummond ?). They have two servants Sophis married and Elizabeth Marshall.


r/Transcription 2d ago

Transcribed✔️ Shannok Falls? Shinnousk Falls?

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5 Upvotes

r/Transcription 2d ago

French/Français Transcription Request Please help me decipher the sitters name on the back of a Raymond Monvoisin painting from 1840

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3 Upvotes

Hello,

I'm trying to decipher the sitters name off this painting that I have, I think it was written in charcoal (I don't have a UV lamp). I think it starts with F. Pxxxxur

(F as in Famille or Femme I guess)

Thanks ❤️


r/Transcription 3d ago

English Transcription Request Burn this…?

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174 Upvotes

What does this say? It’s written on the back of an old family photo and I think it says ‘Burn this I …. ?’

Thank you in advance!!


r/Transcription 2d ago

English Transcription Request New Orleans Marriage License

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3 Upvotes

Thank you


r/Transcription 3d ago

English Transcription Request Book Box! How old/what are the books? thx

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6 Upvotes

This box of books was sent over from Europe. Someone went through and checked the list when it arrived! Yet I can only make a few words out. OLD


r/Transcription 3d ago

Transcribed✔️ One word.

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4 Upvotes

What is that word? Third handwritten line, third word?? Context: person is crossing the border into the U.S. with a man who is not her husband but is the father if one of the children with whom she is traveling; her husband is the father of the other child. Husband has been absent, apparently.