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Preserving the Documents of the Ottoman Empire with Bookeye Scanners in the Ottoman Archives
Thursday 14. January 2021 - The Ottoman Archives in Istanbul are a collection of historical sources related to the Ottoman Empire and among the largest archives in the world. They cover a total of 39 nations whose territories were at one time part of the Ottoman Empire.
The archives contain a vast collection of unique documents pertaining to the administration of one of historys largest empires. After more than a century in the center of the old city, the Ottoman archives were relocated in 2013 to the Ka??thane district of Istanbul. They also hold the central State Archives of Turkey.
For the digitization of the enormous number of documents – some of which are from as early as the 16th Century – the archivists in Istanbul use Bookeye scanners. In a huge installation of Bookeye 4 V1A scanners, already more than 30 millions of those historic, fragile and unique documents have been digitized.
Image Access looks forward to supporting this ongoing historic project together with our partner in Turkey Limeks Teknoloji.