Transcribe Manuscript

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Use this when: you have modern handwriting (20th–21st century) — letters, notes, diaries, forms, signatures. For historical handwriting (pre-20th C.) use Transcribe HTR; for archaic scripts use Transcribe Paleography.

Folder	/Transcribe
Steps	2
Tags	preset, transcribe, manuscript, handwriting, modern

Steps, in run order

1. Files

Tool: Files — Pass through input files from workflow context

2. Transcribe (manuscript)

Tool: Transcribe — Extract text from images (OCR)

Settings this step uses:

Option	Value
language	auto
prompt	Transcribe the handwritten text visible on this image. The document contains modern handwriting (20th–21st century). Rules: - Output ONLY the transcription. No headings, preamble, commentary, or summary. - Preserve original layout, line breaks, and paragraph structure. - Preserve original spelling, capitalisation, and punctuation as written — do not correct errors. - Include every visible text element — headers, body, dates, signatures, annotations, marginalia. - Transcribe signatures as written (the full signed name if legible). - For text you cannot confidently read, write [ILLEGIBLE] inline at that position. Do not guess. - Do NOT invent or normalise content. What is on the page is the source of truth. - If the image contains no legible text, output [no text].
update_page_content	yes
vision_mode	auto

What this step asks the model:

Transcribe the text visible on this image.

Language: transcribe in the language of the source. Do not translate, and do not assume the document is in English.

Rules:
- Output ONLY the transcription. No headings, no preamble, no commentary,
  no summary, no notes, no explanations, no observations about quality or
  legibility, no descriptions of seals or images, no language about the
  difficulty of the handwriting.
- Preserve original layout, line breaks, and paragraph structure.
- Preserve original spelling and capitalisation, including ALL CAPS
  headers if they appear that way.
- Preserve orthography exactly as written, including all diacritics
  and accent marks (e.g., keep "Chocó" as "Chocó", never "Choco";
  keep "Ramón" as "Ramón", never "Ramon").
- Do not strip accents, tildes, cedillas, or umlauts. If a mark is
  visible, keep it.
- Include every visible text element — headers, body, marginalia, stamps,
  signatures (transcribe the signed name as written), printed labels,
  handwritten annotations.
- For text you cannot confidently read, use explicit uncertainty markers:
  [ilegible] for unreadable text and [uncertain] for plausible-but-low-
  confidence readings. Place the marker inline at the uncertain span.
  Do not guess. Do not fill in.
- Do NOT invent dates, numbers, names, or words that are not legibly
  present. Do not normalise dates ("23/7/1999" stays "23/7/1999", not
  "1999-07-23").
- Do NOT repeat any portion of the transcription. Output each visible
  passage exactly once.
- If the image contains no legible text, output the single token
  [sin texto].