Historical Documents & Archives
Preserve the Past. Unlock Its Data.
Overview
JetStream AI brings advanced document intelligence to the world of archives, libraries, museums, and historical institutions. Designed to handle the unique challenges of aged, handwritten, and poorly preserved materials, JetStream helps you digitize, extract, and make searchable the valuable information hidden in historical records.
How We Solve Your Biggest Challenges
interScan LLC offers a purpose-built solution for historical archives by combining high-resolution, preservation-safe scanners with JetStream AI software, designed specifically to handle the unique complexities of aged, handwritten, and unstructured documents. Here's how interScan addresses key concerns:
Gentle, Archival-Quality Scanning
interScan’s scanners are engineered to safely digitize fragile, aged materials without damaging them. They capture high-resolution, distortion-free images that preserve every detail, ideal for historical documents that are faded, torn, or fragile.
Handwriting & Script Recognition
JetStream Recognition uses advanced ICR to process handwritten text, including older scripts, cursive writing, and non-standard characters, delivering much higher accuracy than traditional OCR tools.
Multilingual & Archaic Text Support
JetStream AI supports documents in multiple languages and can be trained on historical vocabulary and dialects, enabling accurate extraction and interpretation across global archival collections.
Unstructured Layout Handling
JetStream Classification and Extraction modules use AI to detect and understand irregular layouts, including marginal notes, overlapping stamps, or mixed content, automatically organizing documents and pulling relevant data without relying on fixed templates.
Metadata Enrichment For Cataloging
JetStream automatically applies rich metadata to each file, like document type, date, name references, or geographic location, helping archivists catalog and search large collections with ease.
Contextual Interpretation with Understanding
For documents without clearly stated data, JetStream Understanding uses natural language AI to summarize, interpret, and even answer questions about historical content, without losing the integrity or meaning of the original text.
Preservation Of Digital Authenticity
interScan ensures that scanned images and processed files retain authenticity, with unaltered image capture, embedded metadata, and audit trails, supporting legal, academic, or public trust in the digital archive.
Custom AI Training For
Rare Content
JetStream supports few-shot learning, allowing institutions to train AI models using a small number of samples, ideal for rare, regional, or culturally unique document types with limited datasets.
Scalable For Large Archives
interScan’s systems are built for scale, capable of handling millions of documents across centuries and collections while maintaining consistent quality, structure, and accessibility.
interScan Solutions For Historical Documents
Scanning Built for the Complexity of Historical Documents
Gentle, High-Resolution Capture
interScan scanners are built to handle delicate, aged materials. They capture fine details from faded ink, handwritten notes, or irregular page sizes, preserving both visual quality and historical accuracy.
Mixed Media Handling
Easily scan bound volumes, loose pages, manuscripts, and archival folders with minimal manual sorting or risk of damage.
Batch Scanning for Efficiency
Quickly process large collections, perfect for libraries, museums, and government archives working on mass digitization.
JetStream AI Modules Working For Historical Documents
JetStream Recognition
Advanced OCR/ICR reads both printed and handwritten text, including historical scripts, unusual fonts, and degraded scans, with high accuracy across multiple languages.
JetStream Classification
Automatically identifies and categorizes historical documents by type, era, or subject, without pre-defined rules.
JetStream Extraction
Pulls out key details such as dates, names, and events, even from unstructured formats, using layout-aware AI and LLMs.
JetStream Understanding
Uses large language models to generate summaries, interpret context, and extract insights, even when information isn’t explicitly stated in the text.
Benefits
Preserve. Process. Access.
JetStream AI transforms historical archives into structured, searchable digital resources, making them accessible to researchers, institutions, and the public like never before. Whether you're managing local records or a national archive, JetStream gives you the tools to bring history into the digital age.
Accurately digitizes centuries-old and delicate documents
Extracts and organizes information for search and research
Supports multilingual archives, including Latin and older European languages
Works on low-quality scans with skew, noise, or faded ink
Reduces manual transcription time and costs
Enables metadata tagging for digital cataloging systems
Use Cases
JetStream AI adapts to a wide range of historical content from centuries-old scripts to mid-20th-century government forms. Turning scattered, handwritten, and unstructured documents into searchable, indexed digital assets ready for long-term preservation and open access.
Newspapers and Publications
Digitize historical newspapers, bulletins, and printed reports. JetStream Recognition and Understanding modules work together to extract headlines, dates, names, and article summaries, creating searchable archives for researchers and the public.
Museum Collection Logs & Inventories
Extract data from handwritten or typewritten logs used to track artifacts, exhibits, or accession numbers. JetStream automates this process, making inventories searchable and structured for modern collection management systems.
Military Service
Records
Process enlistment forms, unit rosters, correspondence, and discharge papers. JetStream organizes and indexes these records, supporting veteran research, government archives, and public access initiatives.
Parish and Civil Registers
Digitize and extract key information from handwritten birth, marriage, and death records. JetStream accurately reads old cursive scripts and regional formats, pulling out names, dates, and locations for indexing and search.
Census and Population Records
Process structured and semi-structured population records, including family lists, census books, and headcounts. JetStream automates classification and data extraction, turning thousands of pages into searchable datasets for research and genealogy.
Land and Property Records
Convert land deeds, tax ledgers, and property maps into digital, searchable formats. JetStream recognizes unique terminology and irregular layouts, capturing owners’ names, boundaries, and historical valuation data with precision.
Correspondence and Diaries
Extract insights from letters, personal notes, and journals. JetStream Understanding identifies topics, dates, and people mentioned, allowing historians to filter and search across personal narratives and archival letters.
Legal and Judicial Archives
Digitize and categorize legal proceedings, judgments, and administrative orders. JetStream can extract dates, case numbers, participants, and outcomes, even from scanned books or handwritten records in outdated legal formats.
Institutional and Academic Records
Process meeting notes, founding documents, or student records from universities, churches, or hospitals. JetStream recognizes institutional structures and extracts key data while preserving contextual meaning.
Immigration and Border Entry Records
Digitize and extract personal data from immigration cards, ship manifests, and naturalization papers. JetStream handles multilingual, handwritten forms and unifies scattered information for archival and family tracing.
