Electronic Archive ELAR

• Activity - Creation, complex equipment and filling of electronic archives, introduction of advanced equipment, information technologies and solutions
• Motto - Promote information and technological progress of the Company and the State

History

2024: Inclusion on US sanctions list

On May 1, 2024, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), part of the US Treasury Department, announced new sanctions on Russian IT companies. The list includes, among other things, integrators IBS and Lanit, as well as the Astra group. In addition, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions restrictions against developers of cybersecurity solutions Aladdin (Aladdin R.D.) and Secret Technologies (Sikret Technologies LLC), as well as the developer of means of digitizing documents of ELAR Corporation. The sanctions affected the subsidiary of the Protei Scientific and Technical Center - Protei SpetsTekhnika LLC: this structure is engaged in the development of communication systems and integrated security. Read more here.

Russian IT companies that fell under US, EU and British sanctions in 2022-2024 TAdviser map

TAdviser drew up a map of Russian IT companies in 2022-2024. which fell under the sanctions of the United States, the EU and Britain. It included, among other things, the ELAR corporation. The article about the map can be found here.

2023: Participation in TAdviser SummIT

TAdviser SummIT will be held on November 29 in Moscow and will be devoted to advanced developments to improve business and state efficiency. Within the framework of the conference, an exhibition is planned for the largest market players, where the ELAR Corporation will present the latest domestic solutions from the registers of the Ministry of Digital Development and the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Read more here.

2022: Participation in the TAdviser conference "Import substitution in new conditions"

ELAR Corporation will take part in the TAdviser conference "Import Substitution in New Conditions." Alexander Kuznetsov, Head of the ECM Department of ELAR Corporation, will make a presentation on the topic "Experience of projects based on import-substituting products from state registers."

On account of ELAR Corporation, as one of the leaders of import substitution processes in, to the country a number of successful projects carried out on the basis of completely domestic technologies. With 30 years of experience in implementing the Russian solutions, ELAR Corporation is ready to ensure a painless transition to domestic technologies in the field of, digitizations recognitions management and automation of document-oriented processes, as well as the organization of trusted storage of documents and, not data inferior in quality to foreign products, in the shortest possible time. In his report, Alexander Kuznetsov will talk about the implemented projects based on products from and, registers Ministry of Digital Development Ministry of Industry and Trade will touch upon the aspects of effective replacement of foreign vendors and import solutions in various areas of digitalization.

"ELAR's experience can be quickly replicated to digitalize various tasks of the public sector, industry and business," said Alexander Kuznetsov. - The company's product portfolio includes domestic platform solutions for building electronic archives, intelligent recognition and document processing. We are the largest document digitizing factory in Europe and the leading manufacturer of industrial scanning equipment in Russia. Therefore, we have all the necessary resources to carry out the most complex import substitution projects. "

2019: Participation in TAdviser SummIT

ELAR Corporation will take part in the TAdviser SummIT 2019 conference, which will summarize the results of the year and formulate further plans for the development of the domestic IT market.

ELAR is one of the largest players in the industry, covering various areas of digital transformation. The company's product portfolio includes document digitization services, import-substituting software solutions and equipment.

As part of the exhibition, the company will present a stand with the Russian service-oriented ECM-platform ELAR Context, used to automate the processes of storing, processing and managing corporate documents, as well as a new model of the ElarScan S2-KS planetary scanner for high-speed and high-quality digitization of archival documents. Such solutions can completely eliminate the needs associated with the automation of business processes and the processing of documents of companies and institutions of any profile.

2018

Principle of "one window" in technical documentation management

ELAR experts, based on the experience of implemented projects based on ECM and BPM of the ELAR Context platform, prepared a material on the principle of "one window" in the management of technical documentation. More...

Protecting business reputation in court

On October 10, 2018, ELAR announced that it had filed Moscow a lawsuit with the City Arbitration Court to protect its business reputation. The defendant in this case will be LLC "" and DIMI-center the deputy general director of the organization Yumasheva Yu. Yu.

As noted in the ELAR corporation, during more than 25 years of continuous activity, the company managed to form a digitization market, implement more than a thousand projects, including national ones, and create a center for the production of planetary scanners, bringing sales of equipment produced by ELAR outside our country.

We actively support import substitution policies and use our own hardware and software to implement digitization projects. Based on practical experience, knowledge of industry specifics, taking into account the various needs of the industry community, we create scanning equipment that is not inferior to foreign counterparts. The representative of the DIMI-Center company has repeatedly stated that there is no production of professional scanning equipment in Russia, and in this particular case, deliberately misled the webinar audience, consisting of specialists from the library and archival industries. This includes our customers, "the company said in a statement.

ELAR planetary scanners have a certificate of ST-1 confirming the Russian origin of the product. The company also noted the repeated supply of its equipment to the defense industry and power structures, where the purchase of foreign-made equipment is simply impossible. Russian scanners are also appreciated by many foreign libraries and archives, where ELAR equipment has been repeatedly supplied through a partner network around the world.

An independent webinar, positioned as a theoretical one, the theme of which was methods and approaches to digitization, conducted by a specialist at the DIMI Center, in our opinion, was organized with one goal - to promote foreign equipment and lobby for foreign products. The "educational" part of the online broadcast is based on false theses that mislead listeners about the exclusivity of equipment characteristics and digitization requirements, contradicts all current recommendations of the Ministry of Culture, VNIIDAD and other organizations. The only purpose of this webinar is to promote the interests of its own company, according to ELAR.

The conclusion that the company made from the current situation: "DIMI-Center" neglected the Federal Law "On Protection of Competition," abused the trust of the participants of the event and slandered the ELAR corporation.

We consider this behavior not permissible and decided to protect professional and business reputation within the framework of the Legislation, - summed up in ELAR.

The reason for the trial was a webinar conducted by a DIMI-Center employee Yu. Yumasheva on digitization technologies and recommendations when choosing scanning equipment, as well as a recording of this broadcast posted on April 25, 2018. The webinar gathered an impressive audience consisting of specialists and experts from the archival and library industries.

2000-2017

The real growth of the Company began in 2000, when "customers are ripe": the demand for the solution of electronic archiving and mass processing of paper documents has finally become a reality. Since that time, indicators have been growing systematically by about 50% per year. Further development is received by distributed specialized equipment, contacts with partners and resellers are strengthened, the turnover of supplies of industrial scanners, robotic archive drives is growing.

In 2001, the Electronic Archive Corporation was created, which also includes ProSoft-M CJSC. The creation of the Corporation based on the experience and knowledge of ProSoft-M was dictated by the growing need to comprehensively solve large-scale tasks related to the creation and use of electronic information resources. Based on market conditions, a representative office of the Corporation is opened in St. Petersburg.

The growth dynamics of key business performance indicators is such that by 2003 the Corporation becomes the largest system integrator in the field of electronic archives, the largest enterprise in Russia for the translation of documents into electronic form. Also enters the leading positions in the field of creating and filling electronic archives.

The volume of work performed in 2005 is comparable to the results of all previous years and accounts for about 40% of the total number of digitized paper pages.

Of course, such a pace of development could not but affect the organizational structure of the entire enterprise. The corporation carries out a planned reorganization: separate industry Departments appear that develop solutions taking into account the needs and specifics of a particular industry.

Exhibition Conference DOCFLOW-2008

Electronic Archive Corporation in 2016 is about 2500 employees. Of these, more than 500 constantly work on the territory of dozens of Customers, scanning documents throughout the country - from drilling wells in the North to ministerial offices in Moscow. They have at their disposal over 200 industrial scanners for scanning any type of document: from microfilms to large-format drawings.

Electronic Archive Corporation in 2017

1992-1999

The Company has been conducting its history since 1992, when the computer company ProSoft-M was registered in Russia. There were practically no investments - therefore, in order to gain confidence in the business, the enterprise had to actively work on many profiles of the emerging market alone.

Over time, the features of the current appearance of the Company were outlined. By 1995, the profile of the company was determined in connection with the development of the niche of automation of libraries, museums and archives. It was then that dense work began on the translation of documents into electronic form. There were few projects, but insignificant in volume they could become a sign of achieving a great result for any large company.

A real test of their own capabilities was the project to digitize and equip the systematic catalog of the Russian State Library with an electronic search system. The results of the work showed that the Company chose the direction of its development correctly. And all the experience gained was invested in expanding the range of possible services in the market for the production of electronic resources.

In 1996, the Company's specialists developed retroconversion technology, a pipeline method for creating databases based on scanned documents. In practice, this meant that an information entry section of 20 operators was built like a large factory: each had its own specialization, each operator entered or checked its database field.

However, the Company's supply was somewhat ahead of demand: most still needed trivial shipments of computers. Therefore, some time has passed in anticipation of the emergence of market needs for services of this kind.

Of the interesting projects: the restoration of the scenery of the Gonzago Theater in Arkhangelsky, where canvases measuring up to 5x15 meters were scanned, restored in "digital" and printed anew, or work commissioned by the US Library of Congress on the project "Meetings at the Borders."

ELAR Production Scan Center

ELAR Retroconversion Center

Areas of activity

Diploma "Leader of the Russian Economy-2007"

The strategic directions of the Electronic Archive Corporation are:

• Creating and populating electronic archives
• Complete equipment of document processing centers
• Creating Enterprise Data Warehouses
• Consulting and design of information resources
• Inline Document Scanning and Indexing
• Service of specialized equipment and complexes
• Development and implementation of comprehensive projects to solve the problems of storing and using large amounts of documentary data.

ELAR is actively involved in the research and development of new technologies in the following areas:

• Analytical and synthetic processing of documentary sources of information. Development of new technologies for entering and archiving various information, development of new methods of retrospective conversion.
• Development of unified complexes for creating and storing electronic copies of documents. Including acquisition, accounting and storage of information source funds.
• Description, restoration, preservation of archival documents.
• Automation of historical and cultural objects. Technical equipment of cultural and educational institutions.
• Library Science, Bibliography and Book Studies. Technical equipment of libraries.

Services

ELAR provides services for the creation of high-quality electronic collections, mass filling of information systems, provides service support for supplied products and services, as well as provides personnel selection and training.

Mass content of information systems

For various organizations, Electronic Archive Corporation provides services for bulk scanning of documents, improving the quality of images and extracting data. Execution of works includes the following main stages:

Expertise. At this stage, ELAR experts evaluate the paper array, together with the Customer form tasks, select technologies and equipment, develop rules for scanning documents and processing images, and determine the cost of work.

Scanning. Conversion of originals into electronic form and improvement of image quality. Scanning works are carried out either on the territory of the Customer or in one of the production centers of the corporation (there are 17 of them throughout the Russian Federation, in Kazakhstan and Ukraine). ELAR production is equipped with industrial equipment (more than 200 units), which ensures high performance and careful attitude to the originals.

Retroconversion. Translates information from document symbols into database records. The information retrieval process includes manual data entry, which ensures the highest accuracy of the information entered, and a multi-stage check of the correctness of the entered data (verification).

Loading information resource into the system. A ready-made information resource - a structured array of electronic images of documents and a database - is handed over to the Customer in the form of a set of CD/DVD disks, data is exported and integrated into the Customer's work system or an information system is installed, personnel is started and trained

ELAR also has the necessary licenses to provide archival services and work with classified documents.

Technology eliminates risks of information leakage

• Scan images of CPD documents containing PD classified as commercial secrets or secrecy are cut into fragments with single elements of the necessary information (dates, surnames, amounts, addresses,...)
• Fragments are encoded, unrelated and processed by programs and operators without access to the entire document
• The recognized data is connected into a single record in the customer's security loop
• Extended Confidential Digitization Protocol may be launched
• Certified Equipment, NDA, Clearance Drawing, Special Communications Transportation
• All licenses of the FSB, FSTEC for state secrets and protection of confidential information are available

Creating high-quality electronic collections

Scanned image
of picture 83x101 cm
with enlarged fragment

For museums, libraries, archives, the Electronic Archive Corporation provides services for the creation of high-quality electronic collections. Scanning of books, paintings and other documents of historical and cultural value is carried out on specialized equipment: without harm to the originals, with a high degree of detail and accurate color reproduction. In the course of the work, partial restoration of damaged documents can be carried out. The resulting electronic images of rarities can be used for subsequent printing of printing copies, WEB publications, creation of postcards and catalogs.

Among the ELAR projects are scanning paintings, negatives on glass, popular pictures, manuscripts of the 16th-19th centuries, etc.

Service

The ELAR service center ensures uninterrupted operation of the production center (which has about 200 units of specialized equipment), as well as provides warranty/post-warranty support and technical support for the supplied products and services at all stages of interaction with customers, including on their territory.

Escort services include:

• Service maintenance of supplied equipment and hardware
• Installation of supplied equipment
• Hardware and Software Consulting, Personnel Training
• Urgent repair of micrographic equipment, professional scanning equipment, robotic libraries
• Repair of electronic office equipment
• Equipment operability according to manufacturer's specification
• Ensuring uninterrupted operation of individual devices or complexes

Recruitment and training of personnel

ELAR offers services for the selection of qualified employees for the Customer in the following areas: scanning and retro-conversion, servicing of specialized scanning equipment, administration and maintenance of information resources and other areas of electronic document management and information storage.

Employees of the Corporation have extensive experience (more than 17 years) in recruiting specialized specialists, an accumulated base of candidates and proven technologies for selecting, testing and evaluating personnel.

ELAR also provides training to the Customer's employees during the project implementation and as post-project support. Training courses in relevant areas are conducted according to specialized training programs, which are developed to meet the individual needs of the Customer. The teachers are ELAR employees with not only extensive theoretical knowledge, but also rich practical experience.

Interesting facts

CNews-2008. The most socially significant project of 2007

At the second annual CNews AWARDS 2008 ceremony for the best projects of 2007 in the field of information and communication technologies, the Memorial project [1] of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Electronic Archive Corporation was recognized as the most socially significant project of the year.

The initiator of the project was the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the direct coordinator is the Rear of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, namely the Military Memorial Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Electronic Archive Corporation acted as the executor.

The main scope of work was implemented during 2007: about 62 thousand archival businesses were processed, more than 20 million records of Defenders of the Fatherland who died and disappeared during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period were entered into the data bank. All information is publicly available on the Internet on the site obd-memorial.ru.

Awards Ceremony,
CNews AWARDS 2008

The award to Major General Alexander Kirilin, head of the Military Memorial Center of the RF Armed Forces, and Vice President of the Electronic Archive Corporation Dmitry Shcherbachev was presented by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

I am very glad that I am taking part in this ceremony and present the very first award for a socially significant project related to a person, with people, with the memory of them. It is very good that the Ministry of Defense acted as a customer, and experts created this electronic archive. This is extremely important for the historical truth. When the Council of Europe argues about our role in the Great Patriotic War, we will be able to show them: 9 million Soviet soldiers lie in their land. Freedom was brought by our army. I am pleased to present the CNews award to this company. "

V.V. Zhirinovsky

IAEA Micrographic Fund Scanning

The IAEA INIS Foundation has the majority of scientific and technical publications published worldwide in various areas of nuclear science. All works upon admission to the Fund were microfilmed and by 2000 about 360,000 microfiches were collected.

Even a small micrographic archive is not very convenient to use, and if we are talking about 20 million personnel prints of A4 pages, organizing operational work with an information resource becomes very, very difficult.

The IAEA's first attempt to translate documents into electronic form on its own showed that with reasonable spending of funds, maximum productivity cannot exceed even 25 thousand pages per year, which is clearly not enough with the total amount of the fund.

Electronic Archive Corporation presented higher indicators - 1 million personnel in 3 months, which was the beginning of cooperation between ELAR and IAEA on the creation of the INIS electronic fund and the organization of on-line access (inisdb2.iaea.org) to information on peaceful aspects of the use of atomic energy.

Creation of an electronic library of scientific dissertations

Created in 1944, the [www.diss.rsl.ru All-Russian Foundation for Dissertation Works] has more than 800 thousand volumes of scientific works, and about 17,000 candidate and 8,000 doctoral works are received annually.

Previously, access to dissertations was possible only in the reading room of the Russian State Library (RSL), the attendance of which was about 100 thousand readers per year. At the same time, most of the readers (more than 250 thousand orders are issued to them annually) are from the regions of Russia.

The need to ensure the safety of a unique collection, on the one hand, and increase the level of availability of this collection for users, on the other, led the RSL to conclude that it was advisable to create an "Electronic Library of Dissertations" (EBD), and the Electronic Archive Corporation was entrusted with solving this problem.

To date, the dissertees have gained access to more than 100 thousand scientific works of their senior colleagues, in total - more than 20 million pages. The project continues today. Every year, EBD is replenished with 30 thousand newly received scientific papers.

To access the resources of the EBD RSL , virtual reading rooms are created in the libraries of organizations. Currently, Virtual reading rooms are successfully functioning in almost all regions of Russia and in 11 CIS countries. The catalog of the Electronic Library of Dissertations of the RSL is freely available www.diss.rsl.ru for any Internet user .

The world's largest scanner

Italian painter, theater decorator and architect Pietro Gonzago, invited in 1791 by Prince Nikolai Yusupov (in those years - director of the Imperial Theaters), created a wooden baroque theater in the Arkhangelsky near Moscow according to his project. The scenery painted by his hand has been preserved there. But for many years they have deteriorated, in some places they have lost a colorful layer, they could not even be unfolded. Nevertheless, the director of the museum-estate Vladimir Dlugach proposed to recreate ancient performances with musical accompaniment. To do this, it was necessary to make high-quality reprints of the Gonzag paintings - to scan the scenery, restore the digital copy and print again.

To create electronic copies, the specialists of the Electronic Archive Corporation created a unique technology for scanning large art paintings and built the world's largest scanner - some of the scenery reached sizes up to 5x15 m.

Together with the efforts of restorers, museum staff and specialists of the Corporation, part of the collection of creations of Pietro Gonzago was restored.

Media about ELAR

• "Electronic Archive": the ability to feel the need for time helps to make the impossible possible
  (Journal "Innovations," special issue, March 2009)
• Creation of a single information space of geographically separate enterprises
  ("Financial Newspaper," regional issue No. 7, February 2009)
• ELAR Corporation - at the forefront of Electronic Russia
  (Moscow Tenders No. 1, January 2009)
• Electronic Moscow "in the ELAR sector
  (" Capital Style "No. 11-12, November-December 2008)
• Electronic Archive of Geological and Geophysical Data
  (Petroleum Facilities No. 12, December 2008)
• Electronic archive for ERP systems <br /*
• Electronic Archive of Moscow
  ("Electronic Moscow," October 2008)
• Information and analytical system for monitoring the reliability of tax returns
  (Tax Policy and Practice No. 10 (70), October 2008)

Links

• ELAR official website
• Industrial ELAR scanning technologies
• Retroconversion
• ELAR Information Solutions for Cultural Institutions
• ELAR SAPERION - your electronic archive
• ELAR SCAMAX Document Scanners
• Planetary scanners ELAR PlanScan
• PowerScan ELAR High Quality Scanning Complexes
• Automatic scanner ELARobot
• ELAR SCM archival drives
• ELAR micrographic equipment
• ELAR Competence Center
• Personal blog of Pavel Plotnikov (Marketing Director)