In Chuvashia, genealogical documents will be digitized at ElarSkan

2025:

ElarSkan A2-600KS50 has been placed in the State Historical Archive of Chuvashia. Elar announced this on February 5, 2025.

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The State Historical Archive of the Chuvash Republic budgetary institution is one of the oldest archival institutions in Chuvashia, the formation of funds of which began in 1923. As of February 2025, the archive has more than 3 thousand funds, which contain many valuable historical documents on the history of the Chuvash Republic.

Domestic equipment was purchased at the expense of the republican budget and will serve to create electronic copies, including metric books, revision tales and confession sheets, the archive notes. ElarScan A2-600KS50 is equipped with a deep book cradle, which will allow specialists to digitize overall and heavy originals up to 50 cm thick and weighing up to 50 kg. Contactless mode and LED lighting system, which does not contain infrared and ultraviolet radiation, makes the scanning process absolutely safe even for the most dilapidated historical documents. The built-in domestic POELAR "ScanImage" allows you to recognize text, process the received images, with conversion and export to various file formats, and save them to the scanner memory, to an external USB drive or to a single system. Working with the scanner is simple and convenient, ELAR engineer training was carried out for employees.

With this scanner, we plan to digitize the archival documents that are most in demand among users, which are necessary for compiling pedigrees. The scanner is easy to use, has high performance and digitization quality, and most importantly, provides a careful contactless scanning mode. The acquisition of such equipment with improved capabilities is an important step of our archive, which will increase efficiency, improve access to information and preserve historical heritage for future generations, the State Historical Archive of Chuvashia said in a statement.