Mgr. Anna Michalcová, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Czech Language Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Institut für Mittelalterforschung at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). Her work specializes in diachronic linguistics, Old Czech philology, and digital humanities, with a particular focus on biblical translation history and medieval manuscript analysis. She actively integrates Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) workflows into philological research, focusing on the methodological challenges of adapting automated text recognition to complex historical transcription standards.