About PastView
Archival Access & Discovery SaaS.
Located in England, PastView helps archival and information professionals preserve heritage by transforming the landscape of online archive collections. PastView is dedicated to preserving historical content, while ensuring its accessibility through cutting-edge digital channels.
Flexible, scalable, and secure - PastView delivers everything a digital collection needs in a comprehensive SaaS platform.
Designed to meet the unique demands of heritage archives, PastView excels in providing access and discovery for diverse and valuable digitized materials. With robust features for management, publishing, and revenue generation, it has become the platform of choice for many heritage organizations, offering unparalleled capabilities for digital access and exploration.
Key Features:
- Text Recognition: Whether OCR or HTR, PastView’s text recognition technology will effortlessly transcribe typed and handwritten documents making them keyword searchable.
- Audio-Visual Recognition: Let PastView’s audio-visual transcription technology convert every spoken word into searchable text, making your collections more accessible than ever before.
- Face & Image Tagging: Your photographic collections will benefit from facial recognition and automated tagging, enhancing discoverability and making access a breeze.
- Book Explorer: Turn the pages of your digitized books like you're holding them in your hands. Plus, examine every intricate detail of your drawings and photographs using the deep zoom feature.
- Object Viewer: Spin and inspect your 3D models and artifacts from every angle.
Casper Smithson
Chief Operating Officer, PastView
As Chief Operating Officer of PastView, Casper is dedicated to transforming the way organizations showcase and share their digitized collections. Passionate about making history accessible and engaging, he oversees the development and delivery of PastView's innovative SaaS platform, empowering organizations to bring their collections to life online.
With a strong background in sales, marketing, and operations within SaaS businesses, Casper specializes in delivering user-focused solutions that combine intuitive design with powerful tools for discovery and engagement.
PastView FAQ's
- PastView is a cloud-based SaaS platform that helps organizations provide access and discoverability to their digitized archival collections.
- It enables you to showcase your archives online in a structured, user-friendly way.
- PastView is ideal for archives, libraries, museums, heritage organizations, educational institutions, and private collections looking to digitize and share their content with the public or stakeholders.
You can upload and showcase various types of digitized content, including:
- Documents (letters, reports, journals etc.)
- Experienced with our 3D Page Turning Book Explorer.
- Photographs and images
- Audio and video files
- Maps, blueprints, and other large-format materials
- 360° object viewer
- Yes! PastView allows you to customize your archive portal to align with your organization’s branding.
- You can choose color schemes, layouts, and more.
- PastView allows you to expand your team by adding users as needed. These users can play a crucial role in managing and publishing your collections online, contributing additional content over time, and sharing the responsibilities of maintaining an ever-growing archive.
- With ample storage that can be increased as required, PastView provides a scalable, limitless solution, perfectly suited to the needs of expanding collections.
- Security is a top priority to us.
- PastView uses secure hosting and encryption to protect your data.
- It also allows you to set permissions for different user levels (e.g., public vs. restricted access).
- Yes. PastView supports integrations with existing systems such as CMS platforms, collection management software, or third-party tools.
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