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A little curiosity goes a long way.
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Start for freeA place to begin
- Open Manchu OCR
- Upload a manuscript image
- Recognize Manchu text
- Read your OCR results
The past has a future.
A living language.
A new chapter.
Centuries of stories, ready to be rediscovered.
Read, recognize, and explore Manchu with AI.
Old words. New possibilities.
From image to understanding.
Manchu OCR / Upload. Recognize. Read.
A million ways into the past.
Manchu Archive / Discover a world of records.
A change in perspective
History, in motion.
Once written.Every mark holds a possibility.
Newly readable.A bridge from paper to digital.
Ready to rediscover.The next chapter starts with you.
The page
Historical scan; digital text is illustrative, not a transcription.
The possibility
Manchu OCR
Every character.
A connection.
Bring a manuscript into focus. Upload a Manchu image and take the first step from the written page to digital text.
Open Manchu OCRYour next discovery could begin with one page.
The reading roomInteractive preview
Manchu type sample
Digital text
A new way
to read the page.
ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨmanju gisunPreset sample text
See a sample image-to-text interaction.
Illustrative demo. For actual recognition, open Manchu OCR.
Manchu Archive
A deeper look.
A wider world.
Explore a million-scale collection of Manchu data. Follow the words. Find a connection. Open a new line of inquiry.
Enter the archive1M+
Manchu data records.
Countless starting points.
A plan for every discovery
Start curious.
Go further.
Start exploring for free today. More possibilities for researchers and teams are on the way.
For regular research
Researcher
Make room for a deeper inquiry.
Coming soon
Pricing and details at launch.
What we’re working toward
- More room for OCR
- Batch manuscript workflows
- Flexible text exports
- Personal research collections
For shared discoveries
Institution
Give your whole team a new lens.
Coming soon
Pricing and details at launch.
Designed with teams in mind
- Shared OCR capacity
- Team workspaces
- Collaborative collections
- Institutional support
Only the Free plan is available today. Paid plans are not yet open for subscription.
A few useful details.
A clear place to start.
What can I use today?
The Free plan is available now. Select “Start for free” to open Manchu OCR and begin with a manuscript image.
When will paid plans launch?
Researcher and Institution are coming soon. Launch dates, pricing, limits, and final features will be announced here when they are ready.
Can I subscribe to a paid plan now?
Not yet. Paid subscriptions are not available and no payments are being collected on this page.
Looking back. Moving forward.
Not just preserved.
Present.
A language lives when we engage with it. We’re creating new ways to encounter Manchu — connecting the traces of the past with the questions of today.
Historical images & type credits
Manchu manuscript, 1767. Anonymous request, shelfmark SINOL. VGK 5806.48, Leiden University Libraries. Page 5 of the digitized document, via Wikimedia Commons. Original catalog · CC BY 4.0 · View full scan . Shown with display cropping and perspective transforms; source pixels are unchanged.
Emperor’s Poems on Bishu Shanzhuang, 1712. Kangxi, with annotations by Nalan Kuixu and others. National Library of China, World Digital Library. Source and reuse statement · View full scan . The hero uses the user-provided image of this spread, shown in full; archive thumbnails use display crops. These images are external historical references for this homepage concept.
Typography. Newsreader for English headlines; Manrope for interface text; Noto Sans Mongolian for Unicode Manchu. Open-font licenses are included with the site. The small OCR interaction uses preset sample text.