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Service Track · SVC/04 · 3–6 week deployment

Offline Document OCR & Digital Preservation

Convert physical scans and legacy PDFs into searchable, ISO-compliant archives on your own hardware.

We build privacy-first digitisation workflows that combine optical character recognition, human-in-the-loop review, metadata cataloguing, and ISO PDF/A archival packaging without third-party cloud exposure.

Ideal Buyer Profile

Universities, Archives & Regulated Enterprises

Typical Delivery Window

3–6 week deployment

The Operational Bottleneck

Why teams bring us in

Decades of historical manuscripts, legal contracts, and institutional records sit locked in unsearchable scanned folders because privacy rules or bandwidth limits prevent uploading them to cloud OCR services.

Diagnosed in a 2-Week Problem Discovery Sprint before full commitment.
Engineered Architecture

How we solve it in production

We deploy an offline-first OCR and document processing workstation pipeline with side-by-side human proofreading, structured Dublin Core / institutional metadata tagging, and automated ISO PDF/A preservation packaging.

Production Stack:
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Offline OCR
  • ISO PDF/A
  • Local Search Index
  • Docker

What You Receive at Handover

Concrete engineering deliverables

  • Offline OCR Pipelines
  • Metadata & Cataloguing UI
  • ISO PDF/A Packaging
  • Local Search Indexing

Business & Technical Impact

Verifiable operational outcomes

  • 100% local processing with zero document uploads to external clouds
  • Preservation-ready ISO PDF/A packages with embedded searchable text layers
  • Fast full-text and metadata search across thousands of archival records

Buyer FAQ · SVC/04

Common questions before kicking off

Does the digitisation workflow require an internet connection?

No. The entire OCR, proofreading, metadata cataloguing, and PDF/A export pipeline is engineered to run on air-gapped workstations or local campus servers.

Can staff review and correct OCR text before final archival?

Yes. We include a side-by-side human-in-the-loop review interface so archivists and operators can verify text accuracy and add catalogue metadata before generating the final PDF/A package.