Understand any manuscript, letter, or record in seconds. Scripily pulls out the dates, estimates the age and era, names the people and places, and writes a clear summary - so you know what a document says before you read a word.
From full page to clear overview
Dates, people, places & more
Summaries in the language you need
Auto-built chronology of events
A single archive can hold thousands of pages in cramped script and archaic language. Reading each one just to learn what it is costs days.
Scripily reads it for you. It extracts the dates, works out the era and age of the document, identifies the people and places, and writes a clear summary - so you can decide in seconds which sources deserve a closer look.
From the obvious to the easily-missed - here's what each summary captures.
Every explicit and implied date, normalized to a standard format and ordered on a timeline.
Estimates when it was written and how old it is today, with an uncertainty range when the date is unclear.
Names of authors, recipients, signatories, and figures mentioned - with their apparent roles.
Cities, regions, landmarks, and jurisdictions referenced in the text.
Classifies the record - letter, deed, will, treaty, minutes, ledger, and more.
Monetary values, quantities, obligations, and key clauses pulled from legal or financial text.
The main claims, decisions, and events distilled into scannable bullet points.
A concise, readable summary of what the document says and why it matters.
A real example: one historical document in, one structured summary out.
The document
A formal statement in which the thirteen colonies declare independence from Britain, justify the break, and list grievances against the Crown.
Five stages from a raw scan to a structured, trustworthy summary.
OCR and handwriting recognition turn the scan - printed or handwritten - into full machine-readable text.
The model identifies entities, relationships, dates, and the document's purpose across the whole page.
It reconciles internal dates, script, and language cues to estimate the era and compute the document's age.
A summary, key points, and a clean metadata card are generated at the depth you choose.
Send structured JSON, a timeline, or a formatted brief to your catalog, notes, or research tools.
One document, four ways to summarize it - from a one-line gist to a full abstract.
The fastest possible gist - perfect for triaging a large archive.
A tight overview with the who, what, when, and why.
Scannable bullets of every important claim, date, and decision.
A thorough academic-style abstract with context and significance.
Dating a document is more than reading a number. Scripily reconciles the dates written in the text, the calendar in use, and the language and script of the period to place a document in time.
When a date is missing or partial, it estimates an era and gives an honest uncertainty range — never a false certainty.
Illustrative estimate. Uncertainty shown whenever the source date is partial or missing.
Anyone facing more historical text than time to read it.
Triage hundreds of sources fast - read the summary, then dive into the ones that matter.
Auto-generate finding-aid descriptions, dates, and subject tags for every item.
Pull names, dates, places, and relationships from records into your family tree.
Summarize historical deeds, wills, and registers and surface key clauses and parties.
Turn archival digging into ready-to-use context, quotes, and chronology.
Make primary sources approachable with plain-language overviews and timelines.
Read a document in one language and receive its summary in another - ideal for cross-border archives and research.
Everything about summarizing historical documents.
It combines several signals: any dates written in the text, the calendar system in use, the language and spelling conventions, and (where available) script and layout cues. From these it estimates when the document was written and computes its age today, showing an uncertainty range when the evidence is incomplete.
Upload a manuscript, letter, or record and get its dates, age, people, places, and a clear summary in seconds.
Dates, age, people, places & more
Chronology built for you
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