diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6cd01cf4bb824d5b19b14f7e8a5858fe208cc0b8..53b7eb4ab562026f7ae17da2fdfb9ec3ebfc1684 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -144,12 +144,12 @@ SHELL_PLUS_POST_IMPORTS = [
     ('django.db.models.functions', '*'),
     ('arkindex.documents.models', (
         'ElementType',
-        'TranscriptionType',
         'Right',
         'PageType',
         'PageDirection',
         'PageComplement',
     )),
+    ('arkindex_common.enums', '*'),
     ('arkindex.dataimport.models', (
         'DataImportMode',
         'EventType',
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/api/elements.py b/arkindex/documents/api/elements.py
index 2aa75dd2dc9cdbcbfa752cfe2efa121b12bc2402..f7acf9f2b2afd279e95eb1d46526c15c0547041c 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/api/elements.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/api/elements.py
@@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ from arkindex.documents.serializers.elements import (
     ActSerializer, SurfaceSerializer, ElementCreateSerializer
 )
 from arkindex.documents.serializers.ml import TranscriptionSerializer
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType
 from arkindex.documents.models import (
-    Element, ElementType, Page, Act, TranscriptionType, Transcription,
+    Element, ElementType, Page, Act, Transcription,
     Corpus, Right
 )
 from arkindex.project.mixins import CorpusACLMixin
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/api/ml.py b/arkindex/documents/api/ml.py
index 14632c8da47ae3880c66744e9a86dbe2e0ab0887..92509bedccac883827e904736441beb3ef7fdbdd 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/api/ml.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/api/ml.py
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ from rest_framework.exceptions import ValidationError
 from rest_framework.response import Response
 from rest_framework.views import APIView
 from arkindex.documents.models import \
-    Classification, DataSource, Transcription, TranscriptionType, Page, Corpus, Entity, EntityType
+    Classification, DataSource, Transcription, Page, Corpus, Entity
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType, EntityType
 from arkindex.documents.serializers.ml import \
     ClassificationsSerializer, TranscriptionsSerializer, TranscriptionCreateSerializer
 from arkindex.documents.indexer import Indexer
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/management/commands/build_fixtures.py b/arkindex/documents/management/commands/build_fixtures.py
index 870131e4109b869d234911a6ca481801246a9491..80c7ef21b52bd3b237281683d44ace207d9372d9 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/management/commands/build_fixtures.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/management/commands/build_fixtures.py
@@ -2,9 +2,10 @@
 from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
 from django.contrib.auth.models import Group
 from arkindex_common.ml_tool import MLToolType
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType
 from arkindex.documents.models import (
     Corpus, Element, ElementType, Page, PageDirection, PageType, Act,
-    Transcription, TranscriptionType, DataSource
+    Transcription, DataSource
 )
 from arkindex.images.models import ImageServer, Image, Zone
 from arkindex.users.models import User, CorpusRight
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/migrations/0001_initial.py b/arkindex/documents/migrations/0001_initial.py
index 553fd785decaeaea9c55d83ecba9a68cf6e43601..d33f80181f3cd7bc1de449b9daed382127ea6569 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/migrations/0001_initial.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/migrations/0001_initial.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ class Migration(migrations.Migration):
             name='Transcription',
             fields=[
                 ('id', models.UUIDField(default=uuid.uuid4, primary_key=True, serialize=False)),
-                ('type', enumfields.fields.EnumField(db_index=True, default='word', enum=arkindex.documents.models.TranscriptionType, max_length=50)),
+                ('type', enumfields.fields.EnumField(db_index=True, default='word', enum=arkindex_common.enums.TranscriptionType, max_length=50)),
                 ('text', models.TextField(blank=True, null=True)),
                 ('score', models.FloatField(blank=True, null=True)),
             ],
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/migrations/0003_entities.py b/arkindex/documents/migrations/0003_entities.py
index 5d0af9375efcb660b40a0fb74f21f0424a881bce..84dbccc3a654bb8f8ec89d215e69b50bd866ee22 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/migrations/0003_entities.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/migrations/0003_entities.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Generated by Django 2.1 on 2019-05-23 14:51
 
-import arkindex.documents.models
+from arkindex_common.enums import EntityType
 import django.contrib.postgres.fields.hstore
 from django.contrib.postgres.operations import HStoreExtension
 from django.db import migrations, models
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class Migration(migrations.Migration):
                 ('name', models.TextField()),
                 ('type', enumfields.fields.EnumField(
                     db_index=True,
-                    enum=arkindex.documents.models.EntityType,
+                    enum=EntityType,
                     max_length=50)),
                 ('metas', django.contrib.postgres.fields.hstore.HStoreField(blank=True, null=True)),
                 ('corpus', models.ForeignKey(
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ class Migration(migrations.Migration):
                 ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
                 ('parent_name', models.CharField(max_length=250)),
                 ('child_name', models.CharField(max_length=250)),
-                ('parent_type', enumfields.fields.EnumField(enum=arkindex.documents.models.EntityType, max_length=50)),
-                ('child_type', enumfields.fields.EnumField(enum=arkindex.documents.models.EntityType, max_length=50)),
+                ('parent_type', enumfields.fields.EnumField(enum=EntityType, max_length=50)),
+                ('child_type', enumfields.fields.EnumField(enum=EntityType, max_length=50)),
                 ('corpus', models.ForeignKey(
                     on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE,
                     related_name='roles',
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/migrations/0004_entities_data_migration.py b/arkindex/documents/migrations/0004_entities_data_migration.py
index 7ae321e9e4213a7d20a5d062ce111c4d97d33f0a..2ab111e75e3b0e04973f85e59592bc799983ab16 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/migrations/0004_entities_data_migration.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/migrations/0004_entities_data_migration.py
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 
 from django.db import migrations
 from django.db.models import Q, OuterRef, Subquery
-from arkindex_common.enums import MetaType
-from arkindex.documents.models import EntityType
+from arkindex_common.enums import MetaType, EntityType
 
 
 def createEntities(apps, schema_editor):
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/models.py b/arkindex/documents/models.py
index f810bcac54372188f6df3a4e72fc3c3bc44fbd41..3a1df42466f89435145ff59b3df018aa292eab30 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/models.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/models.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from django.utils.functional import cached_property
 from django.core.validators import MinValueValidator, MaxValueValidator
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from enumfields import EnumField, Enum
-from arkindex_common.enums import MetaType
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType, MetaType, EntityType
 from arkindex_common.ml_tool import MLToolType
 from arkindex.project.models import IndexableModel
 from arkindex.project.fields import ArrayField
@@ -492,14 +492,6 @@ class DataSource(models.Model):
         )[0]
 
 
-class EntityType(Enum):
-    Person = 'person'
-    Location = 'location'
-    Subject = 'subject'
-    Organization = 'organization'
-    Misc = 'misc'
-
-
 class Entity(models.Model):
     """
     Semantic object in arkindex
@@ -586,14 +578,6 @@ class EntityLink(models.Model):
         super().save(*args, **kwargs)
 
 
-class TranscriptionType(Enum):
-    Page = 'page'
-    Paragraph = 'paragraph'
-    Line = 'line'
-    Word = 'word'
-    Character = 'character'
-
-
 class Transcription(models.Model):
     """
     A transcription on:
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/pagexml.py b/arkindex/documents/pagexml.py
index 906f73127a5a14cd4fe9abe7369c5034161344b8..014ae2c177c85bb342edd5ca0ee69fdcfcf4f33a 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/pagexml.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/pagexml.py
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ from arkindex_common.ml_tool import MLToolType
 from arkindex_common.pagexml import PageXmlPage
 from arkindex_common.enums import MetaType
 from arkindex.project.polygon import Polygon
-from arkindex.documents.models import DataSource, TranscriptionType, ElementType, Page, Transcription,\
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType
+from arkindex.documents.models import (
+    DataSource, ElementType, Page, Transcription,
     Entity, EntityRole, EntityLink, MetaData, TranscriptionEntity
+)
 from arkindex.documents.indexer import Indexer
 import functools
 import Levenshtein
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/serializers/entities.py b/arkindex/documents/serializers/entities.py
index f4a808412f753f2fdfdc8bf25c5f8fce03d28048..0f8fb71d84d286a98a016e768e262d1ec95f094d 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/serializers/entities.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/serializers/entities.py
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 from rest_framework import serializers
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError as DjangoValidationError
 from arkindex.documents.models import \
-    Corpus, Entity, EntityType, EntityLink, EntityRole, TranscriptionEntity
+    Corpus, Entity, EntityLink, EntityRole, TranscriptionEntity
+from arkindex_common.enums import EntityType
 from arkindex.documents.serializers.light import EntityLightSerializer, CorpusLightSerializer
 from arkindex.project.serializer_fields import EnumField
 
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/serializers/light.py b/arkindex/documents/serializers/light.py
index 56733c6d5e294be1c9cdcc9b0e6d68fc46f45165..59097ebc8c6d6d3f893acc6a4d8da6b380dd4ee0 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/serializers/light.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/serializers/light.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from rest_framework import serializers
-from arkindex.documents.models import Element, ElementType, Corpus, Page, PageType, PageDirection, Entity, EntityType
+from arkindex.documents.models import Element, ElementType, Corpus, Page, PageType, PageDirection, Entity
+from arkindex_common.enums import EntityType
 from arkindex.documents.serializers.ml import ClassificationSerializer
 from arkindex.images.serializers import ImageSerializer
 from arkindex.project.serializer_fields import EnumField
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/serializers/ml.py b/arkindex/documents/serializers/ml.py
index ce1d21176b1aa5b43a06e750cbec2ac49064b48a..3eb3b54bc79432441f426b26f9f9e2d9bca9ba8f 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/serializers/ml.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/serializers/ml.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 from rest_framework import serializers
 from arkindex_common.ml_tool import MLToolType
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType
 from arkindex.project.serializer_fields import EnumField, MLToolField, PolygonField
 from arkindex.documents.models import (
-    Corpus, Element, Page, Transcription, TranscriptionType, DataSource, Classification
+    Corpus, Element, Page, Transcription, DataSource, Classification
 )
 from arkindex.images.serializers import ZoneSerializer
 
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/serializers/search.py b/arkindex/documents/serializers/search.py
index 42096c6dc504347732678c5e49126b2ab61ef793..87d610cc5cb341f13e87fd3c6e0a87b4593d80f8 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/serializers/search.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/serializers/search.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from rest_framework import serializers
-from arkindex.documents.models import Act, Page, TranscriptionType, Entity, EntityType
+from arkindex.documents.models import Act, Page, Entity
+from arkindex_common.enums import EntityType, TranscriptionType
 from arkindex.documents.serializers.light import CorpusLightSerializer
 from arkindex.documents.serializers.elements import ElementSlimSerializer
 from arkindex.documents.serializers.ml import TranscriptionSerializer
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/tests/commands/test_delete_corpus.py b/arkindex/documents/tests/commands/test_delete_corpus.py
index f0efe4a655b79818b1791a0ec968c7d8afdec2e7..da8a4b8125a188e3181d5f58c2f522c92085cd4a 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/tests/commands/test_delete_corpus.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/tests/commands/test_delete_corpus.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 from django.core.management import call_command
 from django.db.models.signals import pre_delete
-from arkindex_common.enums import MetaType, DataImportMode
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType, MetaType, DataImportMode
 from arkindex_common.ml_tool import MLToolType
 from arkindex.project.tests import FixtureTestCase
-from arkindex.documents.models import Corpus, Element, Page, ElementType, TranscriptionType, DataSource
+
+from arkindex.documents.models import Corpus, Element, Page, ElementType, DataSource
 from arkindex.dataimport.models import EventType
 
 
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_elements_api.py b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_elements_api.py
index 5b4e7aa00ffbf100ce0ca8b8e7d3c3b2d81c270b..6b45163cfa2290b0c51321aa3063d2eb48dc7b6f 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_elements_api.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_elements_api.py
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 from django.urls import reverse
 from rest_framework import status
-from arkindex_common.enums import MetaType
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType, MetaType, EntityType
 from arkindex.documents.models import Element, ElementType, DataSource, \
-    TranscriptionType, Page, Act, Corpus, DateType, Entity, EntityType, \
-    EntityRole, EntityLink, MetaData, TranscriptionEntity
+    Page, Act, Corpus, DateType, Entity, EntityRole, EntityLink, MetaData, TranscriptionEntity
 from arkindex.images.models import ImageServer
 from arkindex.project.tests import FixtureAPITestCase
 from arkindex.project.aws import S3FileStatus
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_entities.py b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_entities.py
index e899647ce987b9c5f4b24849823f71f33f2aec0a..27f55bbfc346a7b26d08e56f27e43d6a7c4ac7d3 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_entities.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_entities.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
+from arkindex_common.enums import MetaType, EntityType
 from arkindex.documents.models import Corpus, Element, ElementType, \
-    Entity, EntityType, EntityRole, EntityLink, MetaData, MetaType
+    Entity, EntityRole, EntityLink, MetaData
 from arkindex.project.tests import FixtureTestCase
 
 
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_pagexml.py b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_pagexml.py
index 461c35486be31fab15bbbd64c475be6069fe67a1..23dd4e18c8f11315f3521bfcec0b09df749060ba 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_pagexml.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_pagexml.py
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from django.urls import reverse
 from rest_framework import status
 from arkindex.project.tests import FixtureAPITestCase
-from arkindex.documents.models import Page, TranscriptionType,\
-    Entity, EntityRole, EntityLink, EntityType, TranscriptionEntity, Transcription
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType, EntityType
+from arkindex.documents.models import \
+    Page, Entity, EntityRole, EntityLink, Transcription, TranscriptionEntity
 from arkindex.documents.pagexml import PageXmlParser
 
 FIXTURES = Path(__file__).absolute().parent / 'pagexml_samples'
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_search.py b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_search.py
index 185c4c16c892c2503a4e8674bfa6db49656207cc..f40829251738432d8424a9156917f6bb7728d784 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_search.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_search.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from arkindex.project.tests import FixtureAPITestCase
-from arkindex.documents.models import Transcription, Act, Page, Element, Corpus, Entity, EntityType
+from arkindex_common.enums import EntityType
+from arkindex.documents.models import Transcription, Act, Page, Element, Corpus, Entity
 from django.urls import reverse
 from django.contrib.auth.models import AnonymousUser
 from rest_framework import status
diff --git a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_transcription_create.py b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_transcription_create.py
index 9a210f42fb6d90a5d142c07b39e5df0d8b05aaa4..54202d0051bed89c57259cf102a69b2665dce20f 100644
--- a/arkindex/documents/tests/test_transcription_create.py
+++ b/arkindex/documents/tests/test_transcription_create.py
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ from unittest.mock import patch
 from rest_framework import status
 from arkindex.project.tests import FixtureAPITestCase
 from arkindex.project.polygon import Polygon
-from arkindex.documents.models import Page, Transcription, TranscriptionType, DataSource
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType
+from arkindex.documents.models import Page, Transcription, DataSource
 import uuid
 
 
diff --git a/arkindex/images/importer.py b/arkindex/images/importer.py
index 48dbd8c6420d465c73c0a73691639c51884a44d2..0c71ce014fea6b8b2646b7ee59061cec3eeca83f 100644
--- a/arkindex/images/importer.py
+++ b/arkindex/images/importer.py
@@ -3,10 +3,11 @@ from django.db import connection
 from django.conf import settings
 from pathlib import Path
 from arkindex_common.tools import Timer
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType
 from arkindex.project.polygon import Polygon
 from arkindex.documents.indexer import Indexer
 from arkindex.documents.models import \
-    TranscriptionType, Element, Page, ElementType, Transcription, DataSource, Corpus
+    Element, Page, ElementType, Transcription, DataSource, Corpus
 from arkindex.documents.importer import parse_folio
 from arkindex.images.models import Image
 import csv
diff --git a/arkindex/images/tests/test_bulk_transcriptions.py b/arkindex/images/tests/test_bulk_transcriptions.py
index a98e67d18e927caeff3985ffe9dae8dd2fdffcda..7faa1a19e8f5d55ef1c2e47f391358230ff5a866 100644
--- a/arkindex/images/tests/test_bulk_transcriptions.py
+++ b/arkindex/images/tests/test_bulk_transcriptions.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from arkindex.project.tests import FixtureTestCase
 from arkindex.project.polygon import Polygon
-from arkindex.documents.models import Transcription, TranscriptionType, DataSource
+from arkindex_common.enums import TranscriptionType
+from arkindex.documents.models import Transcription, DataSource
 from arkindex.images.importer import build_transcriptions, save_transcriptions