-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 50
Features
Because FromThePage runs in your browser, you can read and transcribe materials from anywhere -- including tablets and smart phones. You can start projects by uploading PDFs, taking pictures from your camera phone, or importing directly from several digital library systems. Transcribers can start work as soon as material is available and researchers will see their work as soon as each page is saved. You can export at any time, in a variety of formats.
Users add or edit transcriptions using simple, wiki-style syntax on one side of the screen while viewing a scanned image of the manuscript page on the other side.
screenshot of diff feature
comments
Since transcription is highly immersive, transcribers engage deeply with your texts -- getting to know the time, the people, the places, and the handwriting. Subject linking and articles let readers and transcribers explore the text. In notes on each page, transcribers can ask each other questions about unclear handwriting, identifications of people and places mentioned or discuss events mentioned in the text. Changes to each page transcription are recorded and you can follow the edit history of a page.
Subjects mentioned within the document may are indexed via simple wikilinks within the transcription. Users can annotate subjects with full subject articles. FromThePage can suggest wikilinks to editors by mining previously edited transcriptions. This helps insure editorial consistency and vastly reduces the amount of effort involved in markup.
Not just for handwritten materials, FromThePage can import OCR alongside the original image for users to correct and edit.
FromThePage supports foreign language material which can be transcribed in full UTF-8. A translator's workflow allows creation of parallel texts.
Screenshot of formulas
Embed Latex formulas for math, science (including chemistry), and computing.