At the international conference “Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage 2019” (DATeCH2019) held in Brussels, the paper on OCR-D entitled “OCR-D: An end-to-end open-source OCR framework for historical documents” was awarded the Best Paper Award. The authors are Clemens Neudecker, Konstantin Baierer, Maria Federbusch, Kay-Michael Würzner, Matthias Boenig, Elisa Herrmann and Volker Hartmann.