Document Reconstruction & AI Enhancement

Cutting-edge restoration for fragile, historical, and degraded paper archives. AI-powered image forensics, OCR/HTR text extraction, and multilingual translation for research and preservation.

Rebuild history, pixel by pixel.

We combine museum-grade imaging with advanced AI restoration pipelines to recover content from torn, faded, water-damaged, or otherwise compromised documents. Our workflow blends archival science (FADGI/Metamorfoze guidelines) with modern neural networks, enabling libraries, historians, and institutions to digitally rescue even the most challenging collections.

This service is trusted by publishers, archives, law firms, museums, and private collectors who need faithful preservation masters and clean, researcher-ready access copies—without losing the authenticity of the original.

🔍 What We Solve

• Severely damaged or torn documents: Digital inpainting fills missing areas while retaining paper texture.

• Faded ink recovery: AI enhancement boosts legibility, supported by multi-spectral imaging where needed.

• Bleed-through & ghosting: Algorithmic separation of front/back content on thin, onion-skin or wartime ration paper.

• Carbon copies & degraded typescripts: Sharpened strokes without artificial over-contrast.

• Photocopies & duplicates: Reconstruction removes halftone patterns and restores natural line weights.

⚙️ AI-Powered Pipeline

We employ a multi-stage restoration stack designed for archival integrity:

1. High-Resolution Scanning

   • Planetary book scanners or flatbeds with 400–1200 ppi optical resolution

   • 16-bit tonal capture, ICC-profiled color calibration

   • Multi-spectral (UV, IR) capture for faint ink or obliterated writing

2. AI Image Forensics & Enhancement

   • Tear and crease detection + neural inpainting (texture-matched)

   • Adaptive de-noising for brittle paper grain

   • Automated skew, rotation, and page warp correction

   • Smart contrast expansion tuned to avoid clipping or “plastic” effects

3. OCR & HTR (Printed + Handwriting)

   • State-of-the-art recognition for historical scripts: Fraktur, Kurrent, Gothic, Cyrillic

   • Layout analysis for tables, telegrams, marginalia

   • Confidence-scored text output with reviewer oversight

4. Language Intelligence

   • AI-driven multilingual translation with term normalization

   • Contextual glossaries for legal, military, and historical terminology

   • Cross-lingual search capability for research teams

5. Metadata & Indexing

   • Automated entity recognition (people, dates, places)

   • Dublin Core/PREMIS/METS metadata packages for preservation systems

   • JSON/CSV exports for integration into archives or DAMs

🛡️ Preservation Standards & Integrity

We adhere to cultural heritage digitization standards:

• FADGI (Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative): 3- or 4-star imaging targets

• Metamorfoze Guidelines (Netherlands National Library) for color accuracy and sharpness

• ISO 19005 (PDF/A) and ISO 189xx family for image permanence and storage best practices

Our process creates:

• Preservation Masters (unaltered TIFF/JP2, 16-bit, with embedded color targets)

• Access Derivatives (OCR-layered PDFs, enhanced images, web-ready formats)

• Full audit logs of every AI transformation for scholarly transparency

🔬 Applications

• WWII and 20th-century archival diaries, telegrams, police/military files

• Historic manuscripts, rare book pages, legal deeds, contracts

• Museum collections and fragile exhibition materials

• Estate records, family archives, genealogical collections

• Corporate or institutional documents for litigation support

📦 Deliverables

• Raw preservation scans (unaltered TIFF/JP2 with color targets)

• AI-enhanced access copies (cleaned, legible, researcher-ready)

• Searchable PDFs with OCR/HTR layers

• Machine-readable text exports (TXT, XML, TEI-XML)

• Metadata packages (JSON/CSV + PREMIS events)

• Translation glossaries for multilingual collections

• Optional IIIF packages for web presentation

⚡ Technical Specs

💡 Why Choose AI-Driven Restoration

• Recover unreadable content: Even faint pencil marks or wartime inks become legible.

• Accelerate workflows: Neural networks reduce manual cleanup time by up to 80%.

• Keep authenticity: Masters remain untouched; all AI edits are reversible and logged.

• Unlock multilingual research: Translate 50+ languages, including historical orthography.

• Future-proof: Metadata and formats meet long-term digital preservation standards.

🎯 Pricing Snapshot (Guide)

*Volume pricing and institutional contracts available.

🧾 Sample Workflow

1. Document Assessment → Digital microscope & spectral sampling

2. Calibrated Scanning → 16-bit ICC-profiled imaging

3. AI Enhancement Pass → De-noise, de-warp, inpainting

4. OCR/HTR Recognition → Script-trained models + human QA

5. Translation & Context → Verified by linguists

6. Preservation & Delivery → Masters + derivatives + logs

🔑 Call to Action

Send us 3–5 representative pages — We’ll deliver a free restoration sample:

• Side-by-side before/after

• OCR or HTR text output

• Translation snippet (if applicable)

• Detailed QC + technical report