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The author considers the concept of digital humanities. He points out the fulfillment of this concept in Slovakia since the 1970s of the 20th century. The author considers the concept of digital humanities to be a common name and cross-cutting methodology for all applications of information and communication technologies (ICT) in social sciences and humanities, fields and disciplines and their corresponding practice. The core of the study is focused on a brief description of the European research project READ = Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents1,2, which was carried out in 2016–2019 within the Horizon 2020 program. The research project was directly subordinate to the European Commission and was annually evaluated by independent evaluators3 . The main output of the project is the Transkribus platform and tool, which represents a fundamental global innovation focused on the transcription of historical manuscripts and documents. The author, as one of the evaluators of the READ project, describes his experiences and knowledge gained during the experimental transcription of Andrej Kmeť's manuscript letters. He explains his view on Digital Humanities, both as a methodological context for the project and a brief description of the process of scanning, image recording, segmentation and automatic transcription, as well as specific examples of automatic transcription of manuscript letters by Andrej Kmeťa and the results of the experiment.