Abstract The contribution is focused on the transcription and making available of the written heritage in the context of global trends. It points out the importance of knowledge of global trends for libraries for management and education. Provides information on historical print and manuscript recognition tools. It describes the goals and content of the SKRIPTOR project aimed at innovatively making documents and knowledge about scientific communication and the intellectual heritage of the early modern and modern times available to the general public and the professional community. The research topic and object of interest of the SKRIPTOR project are historical documents, written heritage, its exploration, research, digitization, automatic transcription, preservation and access. The research problem of the SKRIPTOR project is the creation of the best possible models of automatic text recognition and illustrates some transcription results.