Examples of our work

Our process

Image categorization

is on Patreon to enlist your help in digitizing historically significant books and periodicals about the Baha'i Faith. This material is often not available to the general public in libraries or bookstores and even Baha'is may have trouble finding it in their local communities. For these reasons it's important that we undertake the effort to collect and present this history online. An online collection is not limited by size and more importantly it can be searched using keywords, allowing anyone to explore the history of the Faith as it developed in their community.Open access:Search only access for copyrighted works:We are scanning books and other printed material as we buy, find or have them donated to us. Priority is given to those books that can't be found anywhere else online, but we aim to digitize all historically significant works about the Baha'i Faith.For those books that can have their bindings cut away, digitizing takes just a few hours, and limited proofreading is underway immediately after. We built a system for finding and automatically correcting common errors in Baha'i documents, adding diacritics and fixing common spelling errors. To date, this program has made more than 100,000 corrections to the text of books, newsletters and pamphlets we have already digitized, correcting Bahé".2‘1lah to Bahá’u’lláh or Bah.-i‘i to Bahá’í without the need for any human intervention.The illustrations and photographs that accompanied Baha'i newsletters and books is to us just as important as the text itself. We have gone to great lengths to preserve, categorize, and make available the images found in the works we scan. In fact, images are the reason we spent the past 6 years rescanning and digitizing the Baha'i News (1924-1990) periodical. It contains more than 10,000 pages of text, and thousands of images. You can see examples of our image categorization here: