AI Is Exposing The Mysteries Of The Vatican Secret Archives

Not even the highest Roman Catholic church archivists know what's hiding in the archives' endless volumes, which are carefully stored near the Sistine Chapel. Only a tiny amount of these archives have been digitized–the rest is an endless ocean of inaccessible papers and parchments. Going through its tomes in search of something would be a task that not even the goddess Minerva herself would be able to accomplish. Some libraries have used technology to digitize their collections, like Optical Character Recognition software that's trained to recognize fixed, separated individual letter shapes. However, OCR is useless when it comes to the endless variety of free-flowing cursive styles featured in many of the Vatican's tomes, which go all the way back to the eighth century.