In the twenty-first century, the increase in the number of digitised Ethiopian manuscripts has led to a proliferation of electronic editions of texts and the need to acquire large numbers of texts electronically in the field of Ethiopian studies as in all academic fields. The purpose of this post is to briefly present four research projects that have recently worked on the automatic recognition of Ethiopian handwriting, each with different objectives and methods. Indeed, HTR (Handwritten Text Recognition) cannot be considered in isolation from the research projects that motivate it.