Give the past a search bar. WinstonAI is a purpose-built AI workspace for historians, archivists, and collectors—reconstructing fragile pages, reading hard-to-decipher scripts, mapping provenance, and surfacing connections across
entire collections in seconds.

Why WinstonAI

• Made for history, not generic docs. Built around the messy realities of archives: microfilm, marginalia, stamps, seals, watermarks, tables, and torn pages.

• All-in-one workflow. From scan → repair → read (OCR/HTR) → enrich → analyze → cite → publish—inside one secure platform.

• Evidence you can trust. Every insight is linked to the original image region with coordinates, so you can verify the source instantly.

What WinstonAI Does

• AI Reconstruction: Repairs tears, folds, stains, and fading; de-skews, de-warps, and boosts legibility while preserving an authenticated “as-found” layer.

• HTR + OCR for History: Reads printed and handwritten text (including historical scripts) and turns it into structured, searchable data. Existing ecosystems show this is possible for cursive & Kurrent; WinstonAI brings it to your end-to-end workflow. 

• Entity, Date & Place Intelligence: Extracts people, ranks, units, places, dates, and relationships; resolves name variants and builds a provenance graph. Tools like Recogito show the power of entity linking; WinstonAI bakes this into your pipeline. 

• Cross-Collection Search: Query across your boxes, reels, albums, and emails in one hit. Supports open standards like IIIF so you can interoperate with institutional viewers and manifests. 

• Multilingual by Design: Search and translate across German, English, French, Italian, Russian, and more—including historical spelling variants.

• Object-Aware: Detects stamps, seals, letterheads, plate numbers, signatures, marginal notes, and catalog marks; links them to known registries when available.

• Scholarly Citations: One-click footnotes with persistent identifiers, image-region pointers, and export to your bibliography manager.

• Collections Operations: De-duplicate near-identical scans, auto-cluster related files, compare editions, and flag gaps or outliers for further research.

How It Works

1. Ingest
   Drag-and-drop folders, microfilm scans, negatives, email exports, or IIIF manifests. WinstonAI builds a clean, versioned dataset and checks image health. (IIIF keeps you interoperable with museum & library ecosystems.) 

2. Reconstruct
   Automated repair of physical damage, deskewing, line finding, layout and table detection.

3. Read
   AI OCR/HTR tuned for historical material—trained approaches used by projects like Transkribus and Kraken demonstrate high accuracy on old scripts; WinstonAI integrates these capabilities into a unified research flow. 

4. Enrich
   Entity linking, georesolution, date normalization, topic tags, and collection-level clustering.

5. Analyze
   Ask natural-language questions (“Show all references to Schmundt between 1936–1939 in Kurrent”) and get source-anchored answers.

6. Cite & Publish
   Export annotated PDFs, IIIF manifests, TEI, or CSV. Generate footnotes with image-region pins, then publish an online dossier or private report.

Built for These Teams

• Historians & Researchers – Rapid transcription & cross-lingual search; quote with confidence.

• Archives, Museums & Libraries – Enhance discoverability and public access while keeping source fidelity. (Crowd projects like FromThePage illustrate demand; WinstonAI adds AI-assist and deep enrichment under one roof.) 

• Publishers & Editors – Faster indexing, image-region citations, and glossary building.

• Auction Houses & Provenance Teams – Verify marks, identify prior owners, and surface related materials in seconds.

• Genealogists & Local Historians – Resolve name variants, connect places, and build timelines with primary-source evidence.

What Makes WinstonAI Different

• End-to-End, Evidence-First. Not just transcription or annotation—WinstonAI carries context from image to insight with verifiable links.

• Interoperability by Default. IIIF viewers and manifests for deep zoom, annotation, and cross-repository portability. 

• Email & Born-Digital Friendly. Import mailbox archives for appraisal and discovery (collections often do this via ePADD; WinstonAI extends that idea to unify email with scanned materials). 

• Historian-Grade UX. Region-level notes, side-by-side variants, paleography help (script cues), and “hand-to-type” confidence overlays.

Security & Trust

• Private by design. Run fully on-prem or in a private cloud. Your scans and notes never train third-party models without explicit consent.

• Audit trails. Every transformation is versioned; compare “as-found” vs “enhanced” any time.

• Role-based access. Granular sharing—from a single page to an entire fonds.

Pricing (Early Access)

• Researcher – Solo seat, 200 pages/month, OCR/HTR, entity search, basic exports.

• Collections – Team seats, batch pipelines, IIIF publish, email ingestion, API.

• Institution – On-prem, SSO, custom models, priority support, and SLAs.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can WinstonAI really read historical handwriting?
Yes—WinstonAI uses HTR approaches optimized for historical scripts; ecosystems such as Transkribus and Kraken show how AI can read cursive and Kurrent with training. WinstonAI integrates comparable capabilities within a broader research workflow. Transkribuskraken.reGitHub

Will it work with our existing viewers and repositories?
WinstonAI supports IIIF so you can bring your images/manifests in and publish enriched outputs out—compatible with IIIF-compliant viewers. IIIF+1

Does it replace crowdsourcing?
No. It accelerates it. Pair AI suggestions with human review and community transcription (platforms like FromThePage even added AI assist).

What file types do you support?
High-resolution images (TIFF/JPEG/PNG), PDFs, IIIF manifests, mailbox exports (MBOX/EML), and standard CSV/JSON for data exchange.

For Teams Migrating from Point Tools

• If you currently use Transkribus, Kraken, Recogito, or ePADD: WinstonAI doesn’t reinvent each wheel; it unifies reconstruction, reading, annotation, email discovery, and provenance analysis into one verifiable workspace. See how your stack maps into WinstonAI.

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Microcopy & UI Labels (plug-and-play)

• Buttons: “Process with Reconstruction,” “Open Provenance Graph,” “View Source Region,” “Export IIIF Manifest,” “Create Citation,” “Compare Editions,” “Cluster Duplicates,” “Resolve Variant Names.”

• Empty-state hints: “Drop a folder, reel, or IIIF link to begin.” / “No entities yet—run Enrichment to extract people, places, and dates.”

• Toasts: “Reconstruction complete—view changes” / “HTR finished—accuracy 95% (sampled).”