FamilyLore · Benchmark
How well FamilyLore reads
Measured on pages that people transcribed, on the same path your page takes.
Each script is tested on pages whose holders have published a transcription made by hand. Every page goes through FamilyLore as yours would, and we compare what it read with the published transcription, character by character. The figures are re-run on every change to how FamilyLore reads.
Last run 26 Oct 2026 · Engine 1.8.0
By script
| Script | Pages | Characters read correctly | Names, dates and numbers right | Misread words it marked | Last run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russian and Ukrainian2 pages · 26 Oct 2026 | 2 | 61%Characters read correctly | 50%Names, dates and numbers right | 96%Misread words it marked | 26 Oct 2026 |
| Kurrent and Sütterlin3 pages · 26 Oct 2026 | 3 | 91%Characters read correctly | 78%Names, dates and numbers right | 80%Misread words it marked | 26 Oct 2026 |
| Hebrew and Yiddish | — | No pages yet | — | ||
| English3 pages · 26 Oct 2026 | 3 | 95%Characters read correctly | 88%Names, dates and numbers right | 50%Misread words it marked | 26 Oct 2026 |
| French2 pages · 26 Oct 2026 | 2 | 84%Characters read correctly | 61%Names, dates and numbers right | 76%Misread words it marked | 26 Oct 2026 |
Pages used
Russian and Ukrainian2 pages
- M. Yu. Lermontov, two epigrams on 'Makavey'1837Wikimedia CommonsHolder’s pageTranscription
- M. Yu. Lermontov, two epigrams on F. V. Bulgarin1837Wikimedia CommonsHolder’s pageTranscription
Kurrent and Sütterlin3 pages
- G. E. Lessing to Ewald von Kleist1758Wikimedia CommonsHolder’s pageTranscription
- Johann Kilian to Gotthold Albert Gumlich1858SLUB DresdenHolder’s pageTranscription
- Arthur Schnitzler to Richard Beer-Hofmann1896Wikimedia CommonsHolder’s pageTranscription
English3 pages
- A letter on the Combahee River raid1863Library of CongressHolder’s pageTranscription
- Quitclaim deed, Lucy Stone to Frederick H. White1888Library of CongressHolder’s pageTranscription
- Maine Beet Sugar Co. cash book1878Library of CongressHolder’s pageTranscription
French2 pages
- Hippolyte Valmore to Gustave Revilliod1866Archives d'État de GenèveHolder’s pageTranscription
- Will of Elizabeth Queriau (notary Langlard), Paris1752Archives nationales (via Wikimedia Commons)Holder’s pageTranscription
Hard pages
Measured classes appear here as they pass.
A page from the benchmark
Two readers agree on 204 of 222 words. 18 to check:
- 8-99
- Serbin (Low Pinoak Settlement) Bastrop County,
- Texas, den 20 sten Mai 1858.
- Geliebter Bruder im Herrn!
- Den Empfang Deines lieben Schreibens vom 16ten März 1858
- bescheinige ich hiermit schon jetzt, weil ich da Andreas Kierling
- auf den Todtenschein für seine Eltern nicht zu lange warten
- lassen wollte. Das Kreisgericht zu Rothenburg wird hoffentlich