The letter your grandmother wrote, readable again
Family paper is irreplaceable and usually badly stored. This console is gentle by default: it lifts damage away from the writing rather than through it, and it never rewrites a hand that belonged to someone you knew.
Transcription
Allanville, Feb. 22nd 1906
Dear George,
I received yours all safe and
was sorry you were unable to come,
but it could not be helped —
God knows best what will happen.
A cleaning passes across the page; the damage lifts and the text is read back. Every job keeps the untouched original.
Every kind of personal documents we restore
30
free points to try it
gentle
by default
resolution out
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hands rewritten
What goes wrong with these documents
The survey vocabulary is specific to this document family, because the damage is. Recording it is what produces the restoration instruction - there is no prompt box.
- Fading and light damage
- Creases from being folded for decades
- Water marks and damp staining
- Sellotape yellowing and adhesive burn
- Torn edges and missing corners
- Album adhesive and mount damage
Survey, treat, read, deliver
Every job follows the same careful path, and each treatment lands as its own revertible version with a record of what was done.
- 1
Survey it gently
Log fading, decades-old creases, damp staining, yellowed tape and torn edges - without forcing the paper flat.
- 2
Lift the damage
Fading and staining are lifted from around the handwriting rather than through it, so the hand is left as it was written.
- 3
Read it back
The letter is transcribed into text you can search and share, beside the restored image.
- 4
Deliver for keeping
A print-resolution file for framing or the album, with the untouched original always kept.
What this console can do to a page
Any treatment can run on a single page or across a whole collection, and each lands as its own revertible version.
Gentle revival
Lifts fading and staining without touching the handwriting.
Crease flattening
Removes decades-old fold shadows from the page.
Tear repair
Mark a tear or lost corner and only that area is rebuilt.
Tape and adhesive lift
Removes yellowed tape and album mount damage.
Transcription
Reads the letter into text you can search and share.
Print-ready detail
Resolution for framing and family albums.
Every treatment, shown happening
No sliders to drag - each clip is the fix itself, playing on a loop. The foxing lifting, the halftone resolving, the old hand read back into text.
Fading lifted, the hand left as written
A faded letter brought back to readable warmth by lifting the fade from around the ink - the handwriting itself is never touched.
- Fading and light damage lifted
- Handwriting left untouched
- Damage lifted around the strokes
- Paper warmth kept, not bleached
Ink revival
✓ Hand read back, unchanged
Yellowed sellotape lifted off a keepsake
Yellowed tape and album-mount adhesive removed from a keepsake while the writing and paper underneath are preserved.
- Yellowed tape lifted
- Album mount damage removed
- Adhesive burn cleaned
- Writing underneath preserved
Layers · recipe_card
- Sticky tape removed
- Adhesive residue removed
- Paper
- Ink (writing)
The letter your grandmother wrote, readable again
Family paper is irreplaceable and usually badly stored. This console is gentle by default: it lifts damage away from the writing, and it never rewrites a hand that belonged to someone you knew.
- Damage is lifted from around the strokes; the letterforms are left as written.
- Creases, damp staining and yellowed tape are removed without bleaching the paper.
- Transcription is optional and separate - the handwriting is never overwritten.
- The delivery includes a print-resolution file and the untouched original.
Gentle by default
- Handwriting
- untouched
- Damage
- lifted around the ink
- Original
- always kept
10 document types
Everything this console takes in
Pick the type before you upload and the uploader, format rules and checks follow from it.
Captured as data
What is read back off the page
Every field carries its confidence and its source crop, and anything that fails a check is withheld into its own export column rather than delivered.
Capture guidance
Get this right and everything downstream is easier
- 1Photograph in indirect daylight rather than under a lamp.
- 2Do not force a folded letter flat - capture it as it lies.
- 3Keep the envelope; postmarks date the letter.
The jobs this console is built for
Real reasons people restore these documents - an exhibition, a family album, a searchable archive before the paper gives out.
A grandmother's letter
Decades of folds and fading lifted so the letter reads again - the handwriting left exactly as she wrote it.
A family photograph for framing
Creases and damp staining removed and the image brought to print resolution for the wall.
A recipe card for the family
Yellowed sellotape lifted off a keepsake recipe and the card transcribed so it can be shared.
30
free points to try it
Family paper is irreplaceable and usually badly stored. This console is gentle by default: it lifts damage away from the writing, and it never rewrites a hand that belonged to someone you knew. The untouched original is always delivered alongside the restored file.
A legible copy of a document you already hold
Restoration is a reading aid and an archival tool. Being plain about the line it does not cross is part of the product.
- Rescues letters, journals and family keepsakes
- Lifts fading, creases, damp and tape damage
- Transcribes the letter into searchable text
- Delivers a print-quality file for framing
- Rewrite or modernise the handwriting
- Bleach the paper to remove a stain
- Flatten a fragile original by force
- Discard the untouched original
“My mother's letters were folded away for forty years. They came back readable, in her hand, and it undid me a little. That is exactly what I hoped for.”
Personal Documents, answered
The questions people ask before sending us this kind of document.
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 usNo. Personal documents default to the gentlest treatment available: damage is lifted from around the strokes, and the letterforms themselves are left as they were written.
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Try it on your worst personal document
Free to start, no card. The untouched original is always delivered alongside the restored file.