Digitization of Chronicles and Archival Materials

Who can use the service?

Individual customers (both the general public and professionals)

Institutional customers (municipalities, associations, etc.)

Business customers

What type of documents can be digitized?

We digitize both bound and unbound, printed and handwritten documents up to A1 size

Service description

We offer the following:

  • scanning of chronicles, archival documents, and other documents in accordance with the standards for image data of the Czech National Digital Library or Manuscriptorium (digital library of historical documents)

  • creation of output files in the TIFF archive format, or JPEG2000 (upon agreement)

  • creation of an output file containing all the images in a single file (upon agreement)


The following additional services can also be arranged upon individual request:

  • OCR processing of image files

  • creation of an output file of the entire document with a searchable text layer, allowing users to search the document and copy text from relevant pages

  • creation of text outputs in separate files for each page of the document



Last change: March 18, 2026 21:06 
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Residency, Invoicing, and Correspondence Address

Charles University

Central Library

Ovocný trh 560/5

116 36 Prague 1

Czech Republic


Office Address:

José Martího 2 (2nd floor)

162 00 Prague 6


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Digitization Centre

The establishment of the Charles University Digitization Centre was supported by the project Vytvoření infrastruktury pro Centrum e-learningu (reg. no.: CZ.02.2.67/0.0/0.0/16_016/0002301).


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