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Historical Scanner
Turn old paper into a searchable living archive.
An AI-powered handwriting recognition and document understanding app for diaries, journals, letters, postcards, and book spreads.
Story
Most archival tools stop at OCR. Historical Scanner goes further by understanding structure, extracting entities and relationships, resolving ambiguous places with context, translating content, and generating lifelike audio from handwritten sources.
Focus
Applied multimodal AI for cultural memory and historical research.
Product Type: iOS App
Technical Highlights
- Multimodal extraction with structured JSON outputs for reliable, type-safe UI rendering.
- Knowledge graph generation that maps people, places, and relationships across documents.
- Context-aware geocoding to disambiguate location mentions and improve map accuracy.
- Translation plus visual artifact descriptions for better accessibility and interpretation.
- Text-to-speech pipeline that turns archival writing into podcast-style listening.
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