Common documents
Formats commonly found in this sector's day-to-day work.
BooksJournalsNewspapersMinutes
Formatara for Archives and libraries
Collections prepared for search and reuse.
Organize books, journals, newspapers and minutes by page to make review and search easier.
Solution overview
Important content
Content that should be located and confirmed in context.
Title, date and provenanceSections, columns and articlesCaptions, folios and legends
Useful outputs
Available without processing the document again.
WordMarkdownJSON
Current scope: Formatara recovers the document's general content, but it does not automatically complete sector-specific forms or records.
The document challenge for Archives and libraries
Historical typography, degraded paper, columns and editorial numbering make search difficult. Transcription must preserve page and structure so every correction remains auditable.
A practical workflow with human review
Preserve
Keep the original beside the recognized content so they can be compared.
Describe
Review titles, dates, names and the reading order of the item.
Publish
Prepare Word, Markdown or JSON for cataloguing and search.
What to review
- Historical characters, ligatures and period spelling.
- Text across columns, advertisements and image captions.
- Stains, show-through and incomplete pages.
OCR output is an access layer: it does not replace the original, archival description or a critical edition.
A result ready for the next review
Markdown and JSON help create indexes or search layers, while Word supports editorial correction. Keep the master image and record each correction separately.
- Every fragment retains its source page
- Downloading again does not consume pages
- The original remains available until its expiry date