 Greetings, historians and digital archivists. Welcome to our Getting Started tutorial on Transcribers. Today, you'll learn how to harness this platform to digitize and transcribe historical documents and unlock the written past. But what does that mean practically? Start by creating a free account. Navigate to app.transcribers.eu, sign up and verify your email address. Once inside, you'll see a dashboard tailored for historical document management in the Transcribers desk, which is your central hub to start working with Transcribers. Let's now have a look on how you can navigate in Transcribers. In the top navigation, you will find the three main workspaces. Desk, Models and Sites. The Transcribers desk workspace is where the work happens. Here, you can upload new documents, view recent ones and access your collections. The Transcribers models workspace is where the magic happens. Here, you can train your own AI model, for example, for text recognition. Manage those that you have already trained and browse the extensive gallery of public AI models that are ready to be used. The Transcribers sites workspace is where the show happens. It offers a straightforward CMS-like interface, allowing you to publish documents online, complete with powerful searching tools, linking the transcripts to their source images. Now, we will have a look at some of the key features you will utilize, each of which we will explore in depth in upcoming videos. These tools are the keystones of your adventure to unlock history. Let's come back to the desk and start with the upload. Here, you'll encounter a central concept in Transcribers called Collections. Think of collections as folders in which you can organize your work, each containing individual documents. Each document is made up of images, which are the actual pages of your texts. To upload, click Upload Document. Transcribers accepts various formats such as JPEGs, PNGs or PDFs, but recommends 300 DPI JPEGs for optimal recognition. With your documents uploaded, it's time for handwritten text recognition, the so-called HDR. Transcribers offers a range of public models for different languages and time periods. Choose one that matches your document's characteristics for immediate text recognition without any sort of training. If the public models don't suit your needs, Transcribers empowers you to train a custom model. This might require more effort, but it is invaluable for specialized texts. Post-recognition, the Transcribers document editor, allows for meticulous editing. Here, text and image views are synchronized for an intuitive editing process. Use tags to mark entities, events or uncertain readings. And you don't have to work in isolation. Transcribers supports teamwork. Invite colleagues to join your project and collaborate, enhancing both efficiency and accuracy. As part of the Read Co-op, all platform improvements are reinvested into the community. Your contributions help enhance Transcribers' benefiting users worldwide. To begin your journey, simply log into the Transcribers web app. And if you need assistance, visit our Help Center at help.transcribers.org for guides and FAQs, or join the community forum for support from fellow users. Now that you're equipped with the knowledge to start, dive into Transcribers and explore the depth of history. Subscribe for more guides and become a part of this transformative experience.