The document you need is the one that has been in a drawer
Restore the certificates, licences, policies and records you are asked to produce - readable, and still recognisably the original.
Marriage licence, 1883
seal held
Cleaned rather than replaced - it still reads as plainly the same document.
Built for personal records
What this usually looks like before us
Nobody looks at their birth certificate for twenty years and then needs it this week. Personal records get the careful defaults: folds flattened, fading lifted, seals and signatures composited straight back from the original - so what you send is legible and still plainly the same document.
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.
Add
Photograph the certificate with your phone - the angle and light are fixed for you.
Look
The page is surveyed and its seals and signatures identified and held.
Restore
Folds are flattened and fading lifted; the held marks never enter an engine.
Finish
Download something legible enough to send, plus your untouched original.
How the work is different afterwards
Survey, treatment and verification - the same three things the console shows you on every single page.
Careful by default
Personal paperwork runs at the gentlest setting: cleaned up, with everything else left exactly as it is.
Seals stay original
Registrar signatures, embossed seals and stamps are held and composited back from your own scan rather than regenerated.
Folds and creases gone
Fold shading is removed and any digits broken by a crease are rejoined from both sides of it.
Legible, and still plainly the same document
Personal records run at the gentlest setting: the paper is cleaned rather than replaced, and registrar signatures, embossed seals and stamps are composited straight back from your own scan rather than regenerated.
- Seals and signatures returned from your original scan
- Fold shading removed and broken digits rejoined
- Nothing re-typeset - the wording is never changed
- Phone photographs squared and evenly lit first
- Your documents are never used to train anything
Marriage certificate, 1991
Version history · every step revertible
30 — free points, no card
“My marriage certificate had been folded in a drawer for thirty years. The copy I sent was accepted first time.”
Restored a 1991 marriage certificate
Who this is for
Personal Records covers a few different jobs. These are the ones people arrive with.
Anyone asked for a document
Produce a legible copy of the certificate that has been in a drawer since the eighties.
Executors and next of kin
Make sense of a folder of records you did not file and cannot ask about.
Home and property owners
Deeds, policies and warranties recovered after a leak or a loft.
What this audience actually uses
The consoles and the restoration behind them - every one of these is a real page, not a feature list.
Start with one difficult document.
Free to start, no card. Bring the sheet your current process cannot handle and judge personal records on that.
Personal Records, 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 usYes - that is the constraint it works under. Seals, stamps and signatures are composited straight back from your original scan rather than redrawn, and the paper is cleaned rather than replaced.
The paperwork your life runs on.
Restore the certificates, licences, policies and records you are asked to produce - readable, and still recognisably the original.
Free to start · no card · the original is always kept