Research Tools
AI Chat with Citations
Ask questions in natural language. Every answer links directly to primary sources with page-level precision.
Knowledge Graph
Discover connections between people, places, events, and documents across centuries of history.
Digital Archive
Browse 150,000+ historical documents with full-text OCR, rich metadata, and AI-powered translation.
Multilingual Search
Search seamlessly across French, Haitian Creole, English, and Spanish with cross-language understanding.
How It Works
A transparent, reproducible AI pipeline that transforms historical documents into searchable knowledge.
OCR & Text Extraction
228,000+ pages processed from historical documents with GPU-accelerated OCR across 4 languages
AI Analysis
Multilingual embeddings, entity extraction (20K+ people/places/events), and knowledge graph construction
Cited Answers
Hybrid search combining vector similarity and graph traversal with precise source attribution
Rasin (Kreyòl for "root") is an open research platform preserving primary sources on Haitian history. Built by studio1804, we make historical documents accessible across language barriers using AI technology. All sources are freely available and properly attributed.