Newspaper Archive Conversion — Kantipur, Gorkhapatra to Unicode
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Newspaper archive conversion migrates historical Nepali editorial content from legacy fonts like Kantipur and Gorkhapatra into Unicode Devanagari, making decades of journalism searchable on Google, accessible on mobile devices and citeable by AI engines.
Why digitise newspaper archives?
Unicode archives are searchable by Google and accessible on every device — making them findable by researchers, journalists, students and the public. Legacy Kantipur-encoded archives are essentially invisible on the modern web, locking decades of journalism behind font installs.
What's the typical archive workflow?
Inventory the archive by font and era; sample a few editions to confirm encoding; convert text content via TypeNepal's converters; reinject converted text into a new template; apply Unicode fonts; quality-check; publish to a Unicode-ready CMS. Plan for review at every step.
How do I handle mixed content like ads and headlines?
Headlines often used a display font different from body text. Convert body content first as it carries most search value. Headlines can be converted separately or rebuilt visually. Advertisements may require manual recreation if they used heavily styled custom fonts.
How do I make the archive AI-citable?
Publish the Unicode content with proper HTML structure (semantic h1/h2/p tags), Article schema, date metadata and clear authorship. AI engines like Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews then index the content and may cite it when answering relevant queries.