2. Registration & User Interface Overview

1. Registration

Before accessing Transkribus, you need to register a free Transkribus account.
Sign up for free and verify your email address by clicking the link you will receive via email shortly after. Upon registration you will receive 50 free monthly credits to do some testing and start your project. 

If you already have a Transkribus account, you can just go to the next step.

2. Login

Log in to Transkribus using the email address and the password chosen during the registration process. After logging in, you are automatically directed to the Transkribus Desk workspace.

3. User Interface Overview

The Transkribus Web App offers a consistent and user-friendly experience by grouping tools into clearly structured workspaces. The interface is divided into three main areas:

• Main Navigation, which includes Home, Projects and AI Lab provides access to the platform’s core features.

• Assets, which hosts your Collections, the Models Gallery, Sites and Datasets.

• Notifications & Settings which includes Notifications, Processes & Activity, and Settings & Account, allows users to manage personal settings and monitor background tasks.

Main Navigation:

• Home: Here, you’ll find a brief overview of your workspaces and recently used documents, as well as Quick Text Recognition and Running Jobs. You can customise the home screen and drag and drop the items to rearrange them on your home screen or show and hide the different items. 
• Projects: In the Projects Overview you can create and view your personal as well as public projects. Here you can also join public projects or collaborate within your team or outside of it on your own projects.
• AI Lab: Here you can monitor all your background tasks and operations. This includes checking the status of Recognition Runs, Training Runs, Up- & Downloads, other processes, and tasks managed by the Hermes system. If the status of a job shows "Created" or "Running" it means that you successfully started the task and usually, it will be "Finished" soon and you can check out the results by opening the page(s) again. 
  You can also start a new training run from your AI Lab or open any completed job from there. 

Assets & Favorites:

• Collections: Here you have an overview of all your created collections and the uploaded documents within. From here you can access, manage, favourite and export all your collections and uploaded data. 
• Models: In the Models Overview you will find an overview of all models that are available for you to use, including public & custom trained models.
• Sites: here you can create your own website to share your collections also view all public Sites (depending on your subscription plan). To get started, move to the Sites workspace to set up your own Transkribus Sites website by clicking on "Create New Site" in the top right corner.
• Datasets: In the Datasets Overview you can view and structure your corrected transcriptions pooled into Datasets from different collections and documents. Pull the best transcribed pages from any collection into one curated, versioned, shareable training set and go straight to model training. Here you can publish and share your curated data without having to share whole collections or documents with other users.
  
• Favorites: Here you can find the collections you have favorited for quick access to the material you are currently working on from anywhere in the Transkribus app.
  

Notifications & Settings Section

• Notifications: Notifications are our system alerts that inform you about the status of tasks or processes, like job completions or document exports, within Transkribus. They provide quick updates and direct links to relevant items, helping you stay informed about your work.
• Settings: This section allows you to manage your personal profile, subscriptions and credits and account details.
  To cancel your subscripion or delete your account please have a look at the article on Managing Subscription Plans.
• Profile: Clicking on the arrow next to your profile will allow you to change your personal preferences such as language and privacy settings as well as view system updates and log out.