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Find answers to common questions about using the Mangadh Archive.
Click "Upload" or go to the Register page. You'll need a name, email address, and password. After registering, verify your email to activate your account.
You can upload documents (PDF, DOCX, TXT), images (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP), audio (MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG), and video (MP4, WebM, MOV) files. Maximum file size depends on your connection.
The Mangadh Archive is free for researchers, historians, and community members to use for heritage preservation purposes.
Navigate to the Upload page (requires login). Drag and drop your file or click to browse. Fill in metadata fields like title, description, date, location, and tags for better discoverability.
Yes. During upload, you can set visibility to "Private". Private files are only accessible to you. Other users can request access with institutional credentials.
Visit "My Files" from the user menu. You can view, download, and delete your uploads. Use the Browse page with Bulk Actions to manage multiple files at once.
Our AI analysis pipeline extracts entities (people, places, events), generates summaries, identifies historical periods, builds timelines, and creates searchable metadata from your documents.
Open any document you own from the asset page. Click "Run Complete Analysis". The system will process the document and display results including entities, timeline, and summary.
We support translation to/from: French, Spanish, German, Hindi, Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Bengali, Japanese, and Gujarati.
For audio and video files, click "Transcribe Audio" on the asset page. We use AssemblyAI for high-quality speech-to-text conversion.
The search system uses PostgreSQL full-text search with fuzzy matching across the Mangadh collection, plus integration with the Internet Archive's vast library of heritage resources.
Yes. Use the media type filter buttons (Texts, Images, Audio, Video, Collections) to narrow results. Filters apply to both local and Internet Archive results.
When you search, we also query the Internet Archive — a digital library with millions of free books, audio, video, and web pages. Results from there are marked with an "Internet Archive" badge.