Digital Archiving
Digital Archiving
Improved Accessibility for Customers
Improved Accessibility for Customers
The Client
AM is a publisher that specializes in creating primary source databases for the humanities and social sciences. They work closely with libraries, archives, museums, and heritage institutions worldwide.
Over the past two decades, AM has completed over 130 digital archiving projects, digitizing up to three million documents for each project and developing a corresponding database and website. Their main objective is to provide researchers, teachers, and students with easy access to primary sources.
Glynn Porritt
Technical Services Manager, AM
Digital Archiving Challenges
Prior to implementing PLANET AI’s Intelligent Document Analysis – IDA –, AM used a market-leading optical character recognition (OCR) engine for their digital archiving processes.
Handwritten text
Damaged scans
Automation
Automatic transcription with sufficient accuracy was not possible, which limited users’ ability to search the primary source databases to index-based searches. This ultimately weakened AM’s value proposition and hindered their expansion efforts.
PLANET AI’s Digital Archiving Solution
AM integrated IDA into their digital archiving solution and now utilizes IDA Recognition to automatically transcribe between 15,000 and 18,000 documents per day. When combined with the previous manually added indices, these documents can be searched using keywords, which are then highlighted. This empowers AM’s clients with a new and immersive archival experience that encourages exploration.