Arcanum Adatbázis Kft., often shortened to Arcanum, is a Hungarian company mainly involved in the mass digitization and publication of documents. It was founded in 1989 by Sándor Biszak. Currently, it operates several digital libraries containing various documents, including books, newspapers, and map, mainly in Hungarian. Sándor Biszak, after graduating as a chemist in 1983, briefly worked in the library of the Kőbánya Pharmaceutical Factory (now known as Gedeon Richter), where he became interested in IT systems and digitization. In the mid-1980s, he joined a cooperative where he worked on databases. On 1 January 1989, he founded his own company, Arcanum, with the initial task of establishing an electronic patent database for the Hungarian Patent Office . More information...
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