Digitisation & Digital Archives
Transform historical collections, fragile manuscripts, corporate records, and administrative paper archives into high-resolution, full-text searchable, AI-ready digital repositories.
Safeguarding Heritage & Unlocking Institutional Memory
Physical archives, rare books, and organizational paper records face degradation, physical risks, and severe access limitations. MERIC provides turn-key archival digitization projects — using state-of-the-art non-destructive planetary scanners, bilingual OCR processing, and structured metadata tagging.
The MERIC Digitisation Advantage
From fragile 19th-century manuscripts to multi-million page government archive conversions, we deliver museum-grade precision.
- On-site mobile scanning labs or secure facility processing
- Proprietary Arabic OCR post-correction algorithms for higher search fidelity
- Dublin Core and METS/MODS metadata schema integration
- High-speed cloud digital repository deployment for instant public or internal access
Comprehensive Digitisation Capabilities
From capture to AI-driven semantic retrieval.
Book, Manuscript & Map Scanning
Non-destructive V-cradle planetary scanners capturing fragile bindings, rare manuscripts, and oversized historical maps up to A0 size.
High-Accuracy Arabic & English OCR
Optical character recognition engineered for Arabic ligatures, diacritics, and multi-column magazine layouts, generating searchable PDFs.
Metadata Creation & Taxonomy
Bilingual descriptive, administrative, and technical metadata enrichment adhering to Dublin Core, MODS, and institutional vocabularies.
Digital Preservation Repositories
Implementation of OAIS-compliant digital repository platforms with automated checksum verification and format migration support.
Legacy Archive & Microfilm Conversion
High-throughput digitization of microfiche, microfilms, photographic negatives, and legacy enterprise paper document silos.
AI Search & Document Extraction
Direct integration with Knowledge GEMZ LLMs, enabling semantic summarization and conversational exploration of massive archive sets.
Serving Cultural & Institutional Archives
Preserving irreplaceable treasures and modernizing administrative records.
National Libraries & Museums
Manuscript collections, rare heritage books, and historical gazettes.
University Archives
Historical student records, faculty monographs, and founding documents.
Ministries & Courts
Deeds, gazettes, judicial case archives, and legislative records.
Enterprises & Banks
Customer files, historical ledger books, and corporate board archives.