Best practices in pre- and post-ATR for historical research

Based on discussions and hands-on experiments conducted with the participants of a HERMES Bring Your Own Data Labs workshop hosted in Mainz in February 2025, this paper shares four key recommendations for (AI-supported) pre-and post-ATR (automatic text recognition) in historical research. The code used during the workshop and important observations are also published in the following GitHub repository:Barget, Monika (2025). Automated text recognition in historical research. [Github repository]. https://monikabarget.github.io/atr-historical-research/ The repository is work-in-progress and will be updated further.