We’re offering up to 100,000 free credits for students, academics, and archives to use Leo, our AI-powered transcription and document management platform
This grant is open to everyone*: undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, independent researchers, research groups, libraries, archives, and cultural organizations. We welcome proposals for projects of all scales, from smaller initiatives requiring only a modest number of credits to larger undertakings that make use of the full allocation.
Each grantee will receive up to 100,000 credits in addition to a 24-month subscription package with storage to host those images. As every credit transcribes a single image, whether of a page or a double-page spread, awardees will be able to transform as many as 200,000 pages of handwritten manuscripts manuscripts into searchable plain text. They will also gain full access to Leo’s suite of tools to organize, edit, manage, and export their collections.
*There is only one condition of receiving a Leo Transcription Grant. The awardee must publish the transcription output, on our platform or another they choose, within 24 months of receiving the grant. The transcriptions along with the corresponding images must be made available online free of restriction and copyright (CC0/ public-domain-style openness).
Awards will be made on an ongoing basis. We will follow up on your application and/or provide you with a final decision within one week.
For more information, read our blog post. To enter the competition, please complete this form.