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“21 Years of Peace, 21 Million Documents: Revisting the Digital Portal to the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional .” Tex Libris. January 25, 2018.

How can we process 80 million pages of historical documents?

The question is a philosophical one, about the ability of our minds to conceive of such a large number of documents. The Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive, AHPN) in Guatemala City contains about eighty million documents, or about 135 years of records from the National Police of Guatemala.

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