Digitizing is our passion
Arcanum is an online publisher that creates massive structured databases of digitized cultural content
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Arcanum Newspapers is Eastern Europe's largest and continuously expanding digital periodical database, which contains domestic scientific and specialized journals, encyclopaedias, weekly and daily newspapers.
Search millions of pages and browse the entire table of contents for free. Subscribers can see whole documents.
We proudly present the historical maps and large map series of the Habsburg Empire and its successor states in an innovative way. Arcanum Mapsenables us to navigate historical maps using modern in-browser technologies including 3D visualization.
The ever-expanding collection features large military surveys, even cadastral and city maps. This site makes more and more content available to the world in an intuitive interface, providing opportunity for international collaboration.
At the dawn of the Hungarian multimedia CD-ROM publishing, we released our bestseller titles “The Bible” and “Verstár” (“Poem Collection”) in 1997. Later, we published more than 300 more titles covering all aspects of the Hungarian culture: encyclopedias, bibliographies, family stories, historical monographs.
More than 20 years later, we share our most valuable publications for free.
The Company
We are offering you our experience of 30 years and 30 million digitized and published pages, cutting-edge infrastructure and innovative software environment for complete solutions.
The Company ContactTechnology
Digitization
Digitization of newspapers and books with simple scanners to robotic scanners
Newspaper segmentation
Article segmentation, reading order, title, caption detection, etc.
Face recognition
Find illustrated pages in our whole newspaper archive
Natural Language Processing
Find person or location names in our whole newspaper archive
Historical maps
Digital geography from maps of today back to sheets from the 17-18. centuries.