How has paperwork served as a tool of empowerment for people who often find power elusive?

In our latest podcast, a group of historians, archivists, and activists met at the Raphael Samuel History Centre (@rshc.bsky.social) to discuss the hidden history of paperwork 🗃️🎙️

You can now share documents on Leo! To celebrate, here's a copy of a letter composed by Sir Philip Sidney in 1579 to Queen Elizabeth I, now held by the Folger Shakespeare Library 📜

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I've been experimenting with Leo LLM-based transcriptions for a couple of months, and applied for this awesome grant. I got it (thanks, Jon!) and now I'm going to experiment some more. Will post some examples in this thread to give people an idea of how it works.

🚀 We’re offering up to 100,000 free credits (worth $15,000) for students, researchers, and archives to use Leo, our AI platform for transcribing historical documents. The only condition? You'll have to make the transcripts openly available (CC0) within 24 months.

blog.tryleo.ai/2025/09/05/l...

@leotranscribes.bsky.social is really interesting: as far as I can tell, they trained a LLM in some way that’s way more reliable than chatbots. The result has been very good so far, and it doesn’t require specific models. It feels more like magic than Transkribus, but I’m generally impressed.

Big news! 🦁 Leo won a $50,000 Emergent Ventures grant. We’re using it to boost accuracy, expand training data, add semantic search, and introduce translation, summarization, and interpretation tools for researchers. More details: blog.tryleo.ai/2025/08/06/l...

"Google served up Transkribus and Pen-to-Print but neither worked for me. Somewhere in those results was Leo. It transcribed the first nine pages nearly perfectly and so I went ahead and transcribed the rest of the diary."

blog.tryleo.ai/2025/07/23/i...

Recently had the pleasure of interviewing the founders of @leotranscribes.bsky.social and trying their platform, which is *very* effective with tricky manuscripts. If you’re doing a transcription project, check them out! Easier and more accurate than other common HTR tools today.

We’re excited to launch our most advanced model yet. ATR-1 sets a new benchmark for automated text recognition, transcribing handwritten and printed text with unprecedented accuracy and reliability.

blog.tryleo.ai/2025/06/20/i...

I'm reading @bhgreeley.bsky.social for @sethrockman.bsky.social's Slavery and Finance workshop, and Greeley mentioned this AI-transcription tool. It's impressive, if expensive. I have never seen such perfect automated transcriptions before. Have to test it with worse hands now.
www.tryleo.ai/