Side-by-Side Original Scan and Digital Text Viewer

C5/10April 21, 2026

WhatA document viewer that displays OCR-reconstructed text alongside original page scans, letting users verify accuracy and experience the original typography while reading clean digital text.

SignalMultiple users expressed strong desire to see original page images alongside the digital text for verification and aesthetic appreciation, with one noting they would primarily read the images and only switch to text for copying or clarifying — current tools force you to choose one or the other.

Why NowHigh-resolution scanning is now cheap, browser rendering can handle parallel high-res image and text display smoothly, and growing interest in digital humanities and historical primary sources creates demand.

MarketAcademic researchers, digital humanists, rare book collectors, genealogists; niche but passionate market; no direct competitor offers seamless parallel viewing — Internet Archive's BookReader is image-only, Wikisource is text-only.

MoatWeak — primarily a UX innovation that could be copied, though integration with structured text reconstruction pipelines adds some defensibility.

Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica View discussion ↗ · Article ↗ · 320 pts · April 21, 2026

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