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Historical Archive · 1960—2012

El Faro Archive

Digital archive of the El Faro newspaper: over half a century of local history digitized and searchable, with full-text search across the original pages and advanced filters by date and content.

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The challenge

Decades of Motril's history slept on paper: thousands of pages published between 1960 and 2012 that could only be consulted physically and that time was steadily wearing away.

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The solution

We digitized the entire archive with our own AI-assisted OCR pipeline that turns every scanned page into searchable text, and built a search engine to match: exact phrase, all words, exclusions and date ranges across tens of thousands of pages, with the original newspaper alongside in a high-quality viewer served by CDN.

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The outcome

More than half a century of local memory stops being fragile paper and becomes a living archive: any name, event or date shows up in seconds, with the original page just as it was printed.

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Original 1960 front page
Original 1960 front page

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