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Run your first job

Understand Acervo's workflow, model fit, first job steps, and review expectations.

Create a team

Set up team spaces, invite collaborators, assign roles, and manage shared credits.

Processing workflow

Check file requirements

Prepare files, choose page order and models, use the text a PDF already carries, and avoid common upload problems.

Processing workflow

Understand OCR

See what happens during processing and what outputs Acervo generates.

Triage low-confidence claims

Triage by confidence, edit titles and descriptions, fix entities at the source, and act on sensitivity flags.

Select access points

Merge duplicates, edit labels, establish identities locally, link rows to identities the workspace knows, remove wrong extractions, select access points for sends when your workspace holds a connection, bring held-back names forward, place works under their parents or set a printed relation aside, edit a work's credit, and mark the curation complete when the description is finished.

Start here

Getting Started

Understand Acervo's workflow, model fit, first job steps, and review expectations.

Run your first jobChoose personal or team workspaceUnderstand review discipline

Trying Acervo without an account

Understand the public trial, anonymous allowance, guest result retention, locked actions, and session claim.

Process one guest documentReview a guest resultClaim a guest session after signing in

Administration

02Administration

Workspaces & Teams

Set up team spaces, invite collaborators, assign roles, and manage shared credits.

Create a teamInvite membersSet roles and permissionsSet your interface language

09Administration

Credits & Billing

Understand starter credits, paid bundles, model costs, and team billing.

Claim free creditsBuy credit bundlesUnderstand model costs

Processing workflow

03Processing workflow

Uploading Documents

Prepare files, choose page order and models, use the text a PDF already carries, and avoid common upload problems.

Check file requirementsPrepare a batchChoose Standard or PremiumUse the text a PDF already carriesConnect your own Transkribus account

04Processing workflow

Processing & Outputs

See what happens during processing and what outputs Acervo generates.

Understand OCRReview generated metadataInterpret confidenceChoose which authority files countImport your own authority list

Review

Reviewing in the Workbench

Triage by confidence, edit titles and descriptions, fix entities at the source, and act on sensitivity flags.

Triage low-confidence claimsEdit a title, description, or document dateAct on sensitivity flagsRemove a wrong extraction and restore itSearch past batchesNarrow History to one stateDelete a batch

Curating the Batch Roll-up

Merge duplicates, edit labels, establish identities locally, link rows to identities the workspace knows, remove wrong extractions, select access points for sends when your workspace holds a connection, bring held-back names forward, place works under their parents or set a printed relation aside, edit a work's credit, and mark the curation complete when the description is finished.

Select access pointsNarrow a long list of agentsMerge duplicate identitiesEstablish an identity locallyLink a row to an identity the workspace knowsAdopt a match another batch madeAdopt a suggested authority recordPlace a work under its parentSet a printed relation asideEdit a work's creditBring a held-back name forwardConfirm repository matchesMark a curation complete

Export

Delivering & the ArchivesSpace Integration

ArchivesSpace sends with no plugin, item records and access points, readiness checks, and the batch facts that ride along.

Send to ArchivesSpaceCreate item recordsUpdate an existing record instead of creating oneChange or unlink the record a document updatesEnrich access points

Exporting Your Results

Choose export formats and move metadata into your catalog or repository workflow.

Download CSVExport XML formatsBundle ZIP exports

Trust & policy

10Trust & policy

Privacy & Data Handling

Learn what Acervo stores, what it deletes, and what remains in your workspace.

Know what gets deletedUnderstand retained dataReview privacy handling