If you work at a public library, archive, or university, the April 2027 web accessibility deadline may be on your mind. Updating a digital collections system takes planning. A patron who needs to read a handwritten document shouldn’t have to wait for that project to finish. FromThePage offers a practical way to make the words in a scanned document available now. Upload the … [Read more...] about Accessibility can start with one collection
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AI in FromThePage
AI in FromThePage is always optional, transparent and tentative – we don’t run AI on your material without explicit permission, and we flag and log every use of AI in transcriptions. For institutions evaluating the use of AI in their collections, we've documented which models FromThePage uses, what data we send to AI providers, how that data is protected, and how we support … [Read more...] about AI in FromThePage
How to Edit an AI Draft of a Historic Account Book
Historic account books are hard. The handwriting is only the beginning. Entries may run across multiple lines. Dates and amounts occupy narrow columns. Dollars and cents—or pounds, shillings, and pence—may be separated in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. Text from the facing page can creep across the spine. AI can give you a useful first draft. But how do you turn … [Read more...] about How to Edit an AI Draft of a Historic Account Book
From a Handwritten Tax List to Structured Data
Registers, tax lists, and other records arranged in columns can be valuable sources for research. They can also be painstaking to transcribe: each name and number needs to land in the right field. In this 15-minute demo, I use a 1769 North Carolina tax document to show how to set up AI Drafts for field-based transcription in FromThePage. I configure fields for the … [Read more...] about From a Handwritten Tax List to Structured Data
Introducing AI Drafts for Field Based Transcription
Let’s face it, some documents are pretty boring. Official forms like tax rolls, death certificates, and prison registers don’t tell the same kind of stories that letters or diaries do. But that doesn’t mean there are no stories behind the people and events represented in these government forms. In many cases these documents might be the only record of the names of people who … [Read more...] about Introducing AI Drafts for Field Based Transcription