Archives, special collections, state and provincial archives, public libraries, and digital humanities projects upload scanned documents to FromthePage.com; volunteers then transcribe, review, correct, and comment on the material as needed.
FromthePage.com was launched in 2005 by two Rice University computer science alumni with an interest in family history.
[1] The founders were inspired in part by "their involvement in Wikipedia's early days".
[3] The platform has been used by Colorado State University Libraries,[4] East Hampton Library's special collection of Long Island material,[5] Harvard's Colonial North America project,[6] Indiana State Archives,[7][8] Maryland State Archives,[9] the Nantucket Historical Society's archive of American whaling,[10] and University of Southern Mississippi's Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project.
[11] The business records of American slave traders Rice C. Ballard[12] and Seth Woodroof[13] are among the many transcription projects of public interest hosted by the site.