Letters and records, digitized to live on.
Photograph the fragile originals — letters, postcards, registers, certificates, handwritten forms — and get back clean, typed text. Preserve what the paper is slowly losing, and make it legible, shareable and ready to study.
How it works
From fragile originals to a document you can keep.
Real archive materials — a correspondence card, register pages, a multi-page letter and a printed form filled in by hand. Each photographed, each transcribed, all held together as one document.
Faded, antique ink
A handwritten table
Rows and columns stay intact — open the result to click around the cells, just like a spreadsheet.
Long passages of old cursive
Page after page, in order
Print and handwriting, together
A printed form filled in by hand — Inksight reads the type and the handwriting in one pass.
Difficult hands
Reads the hands that defeat a scanner.
Faded iron-gall ink, ornate nineteenth-century cursive, cramped marginalia — Inksight transcribes the writing that ordinary OCR turns to noise, and keeps its footing when the contrast is poor and the paper is foxed.
Order & provenance
Keeps a record together, in sequence.
Registers, ledgers, multi-page correspondence — photograph each page and Inksight holds them as one document, in order, so the arrangement of the original is never lost.
Findability
Search a name across the whole box.
Once a collection is text, it is searchable. Trace a surname, a parish or a date across everything you have transcribed — or put the question to the document itself.
Access
Share a transcription, not a fragile original.
Export the finished text to PDF or Word and circulate it to researchers, relatives or a finding aid — so the original can stay safely in its folder.
Begin with a single page.
Photograph one document that has been waiting in a folder. Watch it become legible text in about ten seconds.
Real materials
The documents an archive actually holds.
Correspondence, registers, certificates, pedigree charts, handwritten forms — the materials that fill a collection. Tap any one to look closer.
More ways to use Inksight
Beyond the archive.
Old hands, many languages
Records aren't always in English.
Latin parish registers, German Kurrent and Fraktur, French civil records, Cyrillic and more — Inksight reads the scripts your ancestors actually wrote in.
Keep the collection legible for good.
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