Ask your collection.
Get cited answers.
arcafind turns digitized collections — documents, handwriting, images, audio, and video — into searchable, citable knowledge: structured, curatable, exportable, and publishable.
- Media types
- Documents · Image · Audio · Video
- Search
- Full text + semantic
- Evidence
- Evidence anchor per statement
- Hosting
- EU · Frankfurt
The problem
Digitized is not automatically accessible.
Scans stay silent
Image files alone leave content, people, and relationships invisible.
Manual cataloging does not scale
Tens of thousands of pages cannot be transcribed by hand economically.
Keyword search falls short
Historical terms, spelling variants, and visual clues need hybrid search.
Workflow
From digitized collection to research portal.
- 01
Ingest collections
Scans, documents, and media files — organized into collections and projects, with flexible metadata.
- 02
Apply analysis profiles
Your domain knowledge becomes a versioned analysis profile: the AI transcribes, detects entities, and structures metadata — with evidence and confidence per field.
- 03
Review curatorially
Your team stays in control: manual corrections take precedence over authority data and AI — traceable per field.
- 04
Search and publish
Hybrid search, publications, and standard exports (EAD, CIDOC CRM, CSV, JSON) open up the collection — internally, for clients, or publicly.
Use cases
One platform, many collections.
arcafind is content-agnostic: your organization describes its knowledge, and the platform compiles the technology. Access can be tiered — internal for your team, protected for clients, open to everyone.
Museums & collections
Provenance research, acquisition records, object and image archives — opened up to the individual page, compatible with authority data and GLAM standards.
City & state archives
Files, finding aids, and estates become searchable — with evidence anchors that trace every statement back to the scan.
Public authorities & administration
Make historical and current records researchable — EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant, with tiered access rights.
Universities & research
Open special collections and research corpora for scholarly work — citable, with a source reference for every answer.
Publishers & media companies
Text, image, and AV archives become a product foundation: research tools for newsrooms, new digital offerings for audiences.
Content creators & creative industries
Structure and search your own media data — documents, images, audio, video — and offer it as new access points or products.
Discovery
Research starts with questions, not just matches.
Combine full-text, semantic search, image similarity, and source evidence to verify context instead of working through result lists alone.
Live demo on the public reference collection of Museum Ulm.
Why arcafind
More than an answer machine for archives.
arcafind is built for institutions: AI helps with enrichment, while your organization keeps control over sources, metadata, publication, and standards.
Institutional work at the core
Organizations, projects, collections, and publications reflect how institutions actually work — multi-tenant and multilingual.
Review before publication
Transcriptions, entities, and canonical versions remain inspectable and correctable.
Configurable analysis profiles
Prompt, schema, examples, and test cases are generated from your knowledge — versioned, testable, activatable per project.
Standards and preservation logic
Originals, derivatives, structured metadata, and exports to EAD, CIDOC CRM, CSV, and JSON are core platform concerns.
Trust
Built for sensitive data.
EU data residency
Architecture for Supabase Frankfurt and Vercel EU regions.
No training use
Designed for paid Gemini APIs without training on client data.
Preservation and derivatives
Originals stay preserved while web and AI derivatives are generated traceably.
Open standards
Export paths for EAD, CIDOC CRM, CSV, JSON, and XML.
Access & products
Collections become products.
Publish curated publications, research rooms, and search surfaces — internal for your team, protected for clients and partners, or public for researchers and the interested public.
Reference project
Museum Ulm — Directorate files 1933–1945
The museum directorate's correspondence, digitized and searchable: around 30,000 pages in Sütterlin and Fraktur, opened up for provenance research — funded by the German Lost Art Foundation.
Ready to make your collection findable?
Start with a project, a collection, or a concrete research question.