# MediaINFO Digital Library

> MediaINFO Digital Library is a self-hosted platform for digitised archives: newspapers, books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, audio and video. It recognises the text on scanned pages, in Latin scripts and Arabic, printed or handwritten; reads newspaper pages into their articles; and makes every word searchable. It is made by MediaINFO L.L.C (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) and installed and supported through regional distributors and certified resellers. Not related to MediaInfo, the open-source media-file analysis tool.

Speed: an item of 2,350 pages has every page on screen in 2.3 seconds, a hundred times faster than the previous generation of the viewer, with a hundredth of the data (measured October 2026). https://www.mediainfo.com/news/thousands-of-pages-on-screen-in-two-seconds/

AI: MIMI (MediaINFO Machine Intelligence) is the platform's AI, in two forms: MIMI Edge, on the institution's own servers, fully offline or connected to other AI services as it chooses; and MIMI Cloud, hosted by MediaINFO. Each capability is set independently, and any of them, face recognition included, can be kept on MIMI Edge, fully offline. ${site("/discovery/#stance")}

Almost every installation serves a government office, a ministry, a national library, an archive or a university. Most run on networks closed to the public, and many cannot be named. Named institutions: https://www.mediainfo.com/references/

## Libraries anyone can open

Every figure says where it comes from and when it was true: the institution, its library's public pages, or the library's own statistics. What is counted is what is online.

- [Scriptorium](https://www.scriptorium.ch/): Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire - Lausanne, Switzerland. About 9 million pages, online, every word searchable (BCU Lausanne, August 2026). About 700,000 documents, newspaper and magazine issues (BCU Lausanne, August 2026). 8 billion words, digitised by 2021, when the library held 7.5 million pages (La Gazette, État de Vaud, December 2021). Open since 2012. The press of the canton of Vaud from 1674 to this year: more than 120 newspaper and magazine titles, with gazettes, almanacs and the Encyclopédie d'Yverdon. Story: https://www.mediainfo.com/references/scriptorium/
- [ETERA](https://www.etera.ee/): Tallinn University Academic Library, Estonia. About 7.4 million pages, online, every page with text searchable in full (ETERA platform statistics, October 2026). More than 720 million words, searchable (ETERA platform statistics, October 2026). About 220,000 items, in Estonian, German, Russian, English and other languages (ETERA platform statistics, October 2026). Open since 2015. Books, periodicals and newspapers, theses since 2005, research collections and the Lotman and Mints archive, with photographs, maps, sheet music and video. Story: https://www.mediainfo.com/references/etera/
- [Digitálna knižnica UKB](http://digitalna.kniznica.info/): Univerzitná knižnica v Bratislave, Slovakia. More than 1.6 million pages, from the 16th century to today, full-text searchable (University Library in Bratislava, September 2026). More than 100,000 items, periodical issues, books, manuscripts, sheet music and maps, open to anyone (Digitálna knižnica UKB, October 2026). Open since 2012. Newspapers, journals, books, sheet music and manuscripts from the 16th century to today, in Slovak, German, Hungarian and other languages, including the Bašagić collection of Islamic manuscripts. Story: https://www.mediainfo.com/references/ukb/
- [TASR](https://vtedy.tasr.sk/): The News Agency of the Slovak Republic, Slovakia. More than 1.4 million objects, photographs, negatives, slides, microfiche and reports, open to anyone (TASR object counter, October 2026). More than 1.5 million objects digitised, by the end of the project in 2015 (TASR, July 2015). Open since 2017. The archive of the News Agency of the Slovak Republic: photographs, negatives, slides, microfiche, agency reports and newspaper articles. Story: https://www.mediainfo.com/references/tasr/
- [Memory of Kuwait](https://memoryofkuwait.nlk.gov.kw/): National Library of Kuwait, Kuwait. Books, periodicals, documents, photographs, maps, stamps, coins, music, audio and video that record the history of the State of Kuwait.
- [MBRL Digital Library](https://dlibrary.mbrl.ae/): Mohammed bin Rashid Library, United Arab Emirates. Manuscripts and rare books from the library's collections.
- [Dar Al Kutob Digital Archive](https://digitalarchive.dctabudhabi.ae/): Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority, United Arab Emirates. A growing collection of Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian, described by script, copy date and subject.
- [Digitálna knižnica CVTI SR](https://digitalnakniznica.cvtisr.sk/): The Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information, Slovakia. University textbooks, scientific monographs and journals, and the manuscripts of the Lyceum Library in Bratislava, from universities and institutes across Slovakia.
- [Kuwait University Digital Library](https://onlinelibrary.ku.edu.kw/page/lryysy): Kuwait University, Kuwait. Open since 2022. Theses and dissertations of Kuwait University in Arabic and English, with books, periodicals, manuscripts, audio and film.
- [Kunooz](https://kunooz.shjmun.gov.ae/): Sharjah City Municipality, United Arab Emirates. The municipality's own magazine, from 2009 to this year, and its video archive, in Arabic.
- [KCAC Archive](https://archive.kcac.org/): Kurdistan Center for Arts & Culture, Iraq. Books, manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and historical documents, in Kurdish, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish and Persian.
- [ISDC E-Collection](http://www.e-collection.isdc.ch/): The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Switzerland. Open since 2011. Legal opinions, yearbooks and the publication series of the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, in French, German, English and Italian.

## Built for one goal, and finished

A project the platform was built for, which reached its goal; the institution no longer needs the platform.

- [Historical Dictionary of the Arabic Language](https://almojam.org/): Arabic Language Academy in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. More than 300 researchers, linguists and editors, from across the Arab world, working in the research platform (Forefront Technologies, November 2021). About 20,000 books, sources and documents, in its research library by 2020, back to inscriptions from the third century before Islam (Oman Daily, November 2020). 127 volumes, the finished dictionary, a Guinness world record (Guinness World Records, December 2024). The history of the Arabic language, word by word: each word traced from its first known use to today, written by more than 300 researchers from across the Arab world in a research platform we built. Story: https://www.mediainfo.com/references/historical-dictionary/

## Scanning

Two of our distributors build book scanners: 4DigitalBooks (ASSY SA, Switzerland) and SMA Electronic Document GmbH (Germany). For paintings, decorative surfaces and maps we also work with the specialist makers Cruse (Germany) and Metis Systems (Italy). We advise institutions on the digitisation technology that suits each kind of material and its condition. Material already scanned, on office scanners or otherwise, and born-digital material go straight into the platform. https://www.mediainfo.com/solutions/#capture

## Pages

- [Platform](https://www.mediainfo.com/platform/): what the platform does, from recognition to publishing
- [Discovery](https://www.mediainfo.com/discovery/): how readers find things in it
- [Solutions](https://www.mediainfo.com/solutions/): by kind of institution, and scanning with our partners
- [References](https://www.mediainfo.com/references/): who it serves, and the libraries anyone can open
- [Resources](https://www.mediainfo.com/resources/): documentation, standards, security, and how to read a digital library's numbers
- [About](https://www.mediainfo.com/about/): the company and its regional partners
- [News](https://www.mediainfo.com/news/)