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Museums & Heritage · For institutions

Show the document without moving the document

Produce exhibition prints and facsimile editions from fragile originals that cannot be handled, flattened or re-photographed.

No card required Free to start Original always kept

Manuscript leaf · exhibition master

2.0 m print
Old Norse vellum manuscript leaf darkened to deep brown, its script barely separable from the parchment
The same Norse vellum leaf after cleaning, the ink legible against a lightened parchment ground
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restoredoriginal

Detail recovered from captured evidence only · text read back and compared after upscale

Built for museums & heritage

AAshcombe Maritime MuseumTThe Vale GalleryPPortbury HeritageLLinden HouseCCarrowmore MuseumTThe Bellhouse CollectionFFenwick EstateIIronbridge TrustAAshcombe Maritime MuseumTThe Vale GalleryPPortbury HeritageLLinden HouseCCarrowmore MuseumTThe Bellhouse CollectionFFenwick EstateIIronbridge Trust

What this usually looks like before us

The material a museum most wants to display is the material least able to survive display. A verified digital restoration lets the object stay in a box at the right humidity while the exhibition gets a print at full resolution - and the label can say honestly what was reconstructed.

Today
Originals too fragile to flatten or re-photograph
Exhibition prints needed at sizes the capture cannot support
Visitors cannot read what is on display
No honest way to caption a restored image
With Docovly
Capture as it lies
Print resolution, verified
Honest labelling
Facsimile editions
How it works

Four steps, and it asks you almost nothing

The console looks at the page, says what it found and what it proposes, and does it. You never have to learn the filing system to get the benefit of it.

Step 1

Add

Photograph the object as it lies - never forced flat, never re-mounted.

Step 2

Look

Curvature, lighting and glare are measured off the capture itself.

Step 3

Restore

Detail is recovered from captured evidence and the text read back to prove it.

Step 4

Finish

An exhibition print, plus the overlay that lets the label be honest.

How the work is different afterwards

Survey, treatment and verification - the same three things the console shows you on every single page.

Capture as it lies

Curvature, cockling and spine geometry are corrected computationally, so brittle material is never forced flat for a scanner.

What is wrong with itMeasured
Parchment cockling across the sheethigh
Glare from the display glassmedium
Capture below print resolutionlow

Print resolution, verified

Detail recovery is constrained to captured evidence and the text is read back afterwards to prove nothing changed.

What will be done
1Fix the lightingFree
2Repair aged paper
3Increase resolution

Honest labelling

Reconstructed regions are recorded, so an exhibition caption can state precisely what is original and what is not.

Before delivery
Original keptv1
Held regions composited
Reading back…
Print resolution, verified

Big enough for the wall, honest enough for the label

Detail is reconstructed from sub-pixel evidence in the capture rather than generated, and the upscaled sheet is read back and compared against the original reading before it is delivered.

  • No texture synthesised where nothing was captured
  • Text compared before and after every upscale
  • The honest resolution limit is reported, not hidden
  • Curvature corrected without stretching proportions
  • Reconstruction overlay available for the caption

Land grant, 1740

Version history · every step revertible

Ready
Original capturev1 · untouched
Treatments applied3 steps
Held regionscomposited back
Fields exportedCSV + withheld
Text verified against the original0%

print-resfrom a single capture

We printed a 1740 land grant at two metres. The reconstruction overlay went on the wall beside it.

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Exhibitions lead, maritime museum

Who this is for

Museums & Heritage covers a few different jobs. These are the ones people arrive with.

Exhibition teams

Put the document on the wall at two metres while the object stays in its box.

Curators

Caption precisely what is original and what is reconstruction - because you can show it.

Publications

Facsimile editions of printed heritage that read as the press intended.

Start with one difficult document.

Free to start, no card. Bring the sheet your current process cannot handle and judge museums & heritage on that.

Questions

Museums & Heritage, answered

What this audience asks before committing anything to a restoration pipeline.

Have a document you are not sure about?

Send us a photograph of it. We will tell you honestly whether it is recoverable before you spend anything.

Ask us

Large, but bounded by the capture. Detail is recovered from evidence rather than synthesised, so the job reports its honest limit instead of inventing texture to fill a print size.

For institutions

Exhibition-quality without touching the original.

Produce exhibition prints and facsimile editions from fragile originals that cannot be handled, flattened or re-photographed.

Free to start · no card · the original is always kept