Historic holdings

Archives & heritage

Task: Makes scanned and historic holdings searchable, including handwriting, old typefaces and damaged originals.
Result: A collection that can finally be searched.

Drives revenue ArchivesPublic sectorResearch

Decades of scanned and historic holdings sit in boxes nobody can search. IDA makes them searchable, handwriting, old typefaces and damaged originals included. A collection that can finally be queried, and a new value drawn from material that was already there.

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Customer story

Historical primary sources at AM

AM (formerly Adam Matthew Digital) is an academic publisher that digitizes primary sources for libraries, archives and museums worldwide. Its previous text recognition could not read handwriting, faded ink or damaged scans, so the editorial team indexed documents by hand. With IDA, the collections can now be searched in full text. AM was the first academic publisher to offer searchable databases of historical primary sources at this level of quality.

130+: archive projects
15,000–18,000: documents transcribed per day

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“Harnessing the latest technologies to enhance discoverability is at the heart of AM‘s mission. The integration of PLANET AI‘s IDA into our platforms marked a key turning point in the landscape of teaching and research, transforming the possibilities of digital humanities and unlocking hidden narratives within handwritten manuscripts for cutting edge future scholarship.”

Glyn PorrittTechnical Services Manager, AM