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Adams County asks vendor for proposal to digitize historical commissioners' books
Summary
County commissioners heard a vendor presentation about scanning and making handwritten commissioners' books searchable and agreed to request a written proposal, including an option to make the records full‑text searchable.
Adams County commissioners heard a presentation from a vendor about scanning historic commissioners' books and authorized staff to solicit a written proposal that includes a searchable‑text option.
The county meeting included a detailed demonstration by Josh Dawson, identified as a representative of US Imaging, of on‑site book scanning, image enhancement and an AI‑assisted transcription option that the company said can read handwritten pages at high accuracy. Dawson told the commissioners, "we can scan them as is" and described scanning in color, producing searchable black‑and‑white images for day‑to‑day use, and retaining color images for long‑term backup.
Why it matters: commissioners said the county lacks a reliable, searchable index for older commissioner records and that some historical information — road right‑of‑way entries and other land references — is hard…
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