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Vatopedi Monastery

Project background

Vatopedi Monastery
  • Customer Vatopedi Monastery
  • Date 2008
  • Country Vatopedi, Greece
  • Fields of application Cultural Heritage - Digitization
  • Project Diffusion of the historic treasures of the monastery
  • Work performed Digitization of old documents

The project issue

Mount Athos is known worldwide as the site with the largest collection of Greek and Byzantine art.

The Monastery discovered i2S solutions through a Greek service provider who used the SupraScan QUARTZ A1 for digitization projects.

The monks wish to digitize the collections in order to disseminate the historical treasures they have outside the monastery, mainly for scholars and religious.

I2S products

The Vatopedi Monastery used i2S technology by ordering:

  • SupraScan A1 old generation

In addition, in order to manage their database, they use personalized document management software from which they can enrich the images by adding metadata:

  • Book Restorer

The realization of the project

Thanks to i2S scanners, the Monastery is able to achieve the objectives of its project:

  • 2000 Manuscripts
  • 25 Scrolls
  • Over 35,000 documents and printed books

The advantages of the i2S solution

  • quality scanning
  • handling of documents in various formats and dimensions
  • delicate handling of historical documents
  • automation of post-digitization processing tasks via software
  • an online access to historic treasures

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