The Escriba Suite

The Escriba Suite is a family of self-hosted, open-source tools for one job: turning any source into clean, private, model-ready data. Each tool is excellent on its own — but they were designed as a single instrument.

The hub and its satellites

Escriba is the hub: the universal translator that takes a document and produces clean, anonymized Markdown ready for any LLM. Around it orbit four specialists, each the best at capturing one kind of source and handing it back to the hub.

Escriba — the hub

Documents, audio, video and pages → clean Markdown, with PII redaction, OCR, transcription, export to 10+ formats and a podcast mode.

Fisherboy — web capture

Any URL → Markdown or structured data, with tiered anti-blocking, file/video/gallery downloads and a section spider.

Anonimal — privacy engine

The serious anonymization layer: local ML/NER plus regex, opaque or reversible. The satellites plug into it.

Fulgoria — document data

Bank statements, PDFs and images → CSV rows plus a reusable template, all in the browser.

Selega — financial control

Financial statements validated by 14 live numeric cross-checks, proposing the legalization outcome.

What every tool shares

• Self-hosted. A single Docker image (or a small compose file) you run on your own hardware. Your files never touch a third-party cloud.
• Open source. MIT or Apache-2.0. Yours to read, fork and deploy.
• Private by design. Nothing is stored after the job is done; the sensitive work happens locally.
• One look, seven languages. The same interface — English, Español, Français, Português, Italiano, 中文, 日本語 — auto-detected and switchable.

The two contracts that keep it in tune

The suite feels like one product because every app honours two simple contracts.

1. A shared design system

Every app uses the same design language: light theme by default with a dark mode, the same typography (Inter Variable + JetBrains Mono), line icons rather than emojis, and the same components — each app carrying its own accent colour so you always know where you are.

Tool	Accent	Role
Escriba	Coral #e06a3a	The hub
Fisherboy	Ocean teal #0f8f6a	Web capture
Anonimal	Mask indigo #4a4e7c	Privacy engine
Fulgoria	Violet #6c5cf0	Document data
Selega	Bordó #a8324a	Financial control

2. The “Send to Escriba” handoff

Any satellite can hand its result to the hub without a round-trip to a server. It writes the captured content to the browser’s sessionStorage under escriba.handoff using a small JSON contract, then opens Escriba — which reads it and creates a ready-to-use item.

{
  "from": "fisherboy",
  "version": 1,
  "title": "Captured page",
  "source": "https://example.com/article",
  "mime": "text/markdown",
  "content": "# Clean markdown…",
  "alt": { "csv": "…optional…" },
  "ts": 1719000000000
}

Tip

Because the handoff lives in the browser, the document never leaves your machine on the way from a satellite to the hub. Any new tool that writes this same stash inherits “Send to Escriba” for free.

The privacy layer

Anonimal is the owner of serious anonymization in the suite — the full ML/NER + Privacy-Filter engine. To stay usable on their own, the satellites also ship a minimal built-in regex so they never depend on anything to run standalone.

When you point a satellite at Anonimal (via an ANONIMAL_URL environment variable), it unlocks the full power — names included — and fails closed if Anonimal is unavailable, rather than silently downgrading to regex. Privacy never degrades by accident.

Running them together

Each tool runs independently, but the intended topology for the full experience is one domain behind a reverse proxy, so every app is same-origin. That makes the design feel seamless and lets the sessionStorage handoff work across the suite.

Start with Escriba Fisherboy Anonimal Fulgoria Selega