Every old page has neighbours

Upload a scanned page and see which archive books it belongs with.

A page of Tamil verse with commentary, printed in 1912, from an unindexed archive scan
Ain-tinaiyaimpatu Muulamum Uraiyum, Tamil, 1912. Page 19 of an unindexed scan.

1. Read the page

Tesseract reads the scan in its own script, after turning it upright.

The top lines of the Tamil page, close up

இரவுக்குறிவந்து பெயருந்‌ தலைமகனைக்‌ கண்ணுற்றுரின்ற தோழி வரைவுகடாயது. (இ-ள்‌) சொடுவரி வேங்சையாழ்‌ கோட்பட்டுப்‌ பிழைத்து மடிந்த செவி

Model
Tamil (tam), Tesseract 5
Mean word confidence
73 of 100

2. Find its neighbours

Its words are compared with every book in the study. The five closest come back with the words they share.

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    Checking the page against the archive

    The five closest books appear here.

3. See where it sits

Each dot is a book. The lit dots are its group; the ring is the page.

Before

One scan, catalogued by title and scanning centre, read alone.

After

The same scan read beside the books that share its words, in any of eight languages.

What it reads

Printed books in eight languages from the Digital Library of India. A page image or a PDF of up to five pages.

LanguageBooks in the studyReadable enough to groupMedian OCR confidence
EnglishCounts load from the study
Hindi
Sanskrit
Bengali
Gujarati
Telugu
Kannada
Tamil

Bring your own page

Groups are exploratory, not a catalogue. The study page says how far to trust them.

The check screen with a result: a Hindi passage on fevers placed in the science and medicine group, with Hindi and Tamil medical books as its closest matches
A Hindi passage on treating fevers: placed with science and medicine, and its closest books include Tamil medical works.