Duct for public records
Make every scanned record searchable, inside your own walls.
Duct reads scanned files and keeps your records on your own servers, with no internet connection required.
macOS, Windows and Linux · No account needed · Open source
Certificate of occupancy for Plot 14, Ikeja industrial estate…
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The problem
Decades of paper and scanned files, often digitised as images with no searchable text. Finding a file means asking the one person who knows the shelves. Data protection and sovereignty rules keep these records off foreign clouds.
What Duct does
- Reads scanned PDFs and images with OCR, offline, with a bundled model.
- Runs entirely on your own servers, with no internet needed.
- Flags files with no readable text so they can be read with OCR or re-scanned.
How it works for public records
- 1
Install Duct on your own server
In your data centre or on premises. It needs no internet connection.
- 2
Point it at the scanned archive
Duct reads scanned PDFs and images with OCR and lists any file it couldn’t read.
- 3
Serve the public faster
Staff search by name, plot, file number or date and open the right page.
Made for this work
The parts of Duct you’ll use most.
Images become text
Scanned files and photos are read with a bundled OCR model, on your hardware. Nothing is sent out to be processed.
Nothing silently missed
Files with no readable text are listed under Needs attention, so they can be read with OCR or re-scanned.
Inside your own walls
Duct runs entirely on your servers and needs no connection to Tensflare or anyone else, which suits sovereignty and data protection rules.
Reads the files you already have
No converting, no uploading. Duct reads 99 file types where they are.
Search you can verify
Every result names the file and the page it came from, and opens the document there with your words highlighted. Your documents stay on your computer or your own server.
Which plan
In your cloud or on premises, as an annual licence with setup and training.
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Does it need internet access?
No. Search, OCR and the viewer run with no connection at all.
Where is the data stored?
On your own servers, in a folder you choose.
How do we get started?
With a pilot on your own infrastructure. Talk to us and we’ll help set it up.
Other teams using Duct
Make every scanned record searchable, inside your own walls.
macOS, Windows and Linux · No account needed · Open source