Valuable historical materials are digitized in the State Archive of the Tomsk Region with the help of ElarScan

2022: Installation of the domestic planetary scanner ElarScan S2-800R

State Archive of the Tomsk Region Domestic planetary S2-800R is installed scanner ElarSkan in. With its help, electronic copies will be created for valuable historical materials. This was reported on February 3, 2022. ELAR

The State Archive of the Tomsk Region is a repository of documents not only on the history of the Tomsk province, but also on the pre-revolutionary history of Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan. GATO funds store documents from 1629. In the period until 1917 alone, the archive has 300 thousand cases.

"The State Archive of the Tomsk Region has been conducting a planned digitization of documents since 2014. The most commonly used documents are primarily subject to digitization in order to remove originals from active use. Most of these documents are mass sources reflecting the process of voluntary resettlement of peasants in Siberia, as well as documents of authorities during the Great Patriotic War, " said director of GATO Anastasia Gennadyevna Karavaeva

Professional book scanner ElarScan C2 is designed for fast, careful and convenient digitization of both sewn and expanded documents. It will allow you to create electronic copies with the same quality both for documents in good physical condition and for more dilapidated, time-damaged materials. The contactless scanning method eliminates the possibility of mechanical action on the originals and guarantees their safety. It is worth noting that the ElarSkan line of planetary scanners was included in the Unified Register of Russian Radio-Electronic Products (REP).

The obtained digital images of archival documents are provided in the reading room of the archive in a local database, in addition, individual sets of documents are presented on the archive website, they can be found online from anywhere in the world.