On-Premise Transcription Inside Your Own Network
On-premise transcription puts Scriber on a server in your own network or data centre, alongside the systems your IT team already runs. This page is for IT, security, and data protection: where the software runs, what it connects to, and who controls the data it produces.
On-Premise Deployment Inside Your Network
Scriber is installed on a server inside your own infrastructure, in a server room or data centre you operate, and runs there entirely. Staff use it from a web browser or the Android app, and no external server, third-party processor, or transfer over the internet sits anywhere in that path.
Deployment follows a fixed sequence. An initial consultation settles where the server sits and what it may connect to. We then install and configure Scriber on your hardware, including the minutes template and the connection to the systems you use. From handover on, it operates entirely inside your network.
Offline and Air-Gapped Operation
Transcription runs on our own transcription pipeline on the server itself, so nothing depends on an outside service being reachable. Scriber works offline and on air-gapped networks, and it can sit on an isolated segment with no route out. That is a property your firewall can confirm, not a promise you have to accept.
Works Offline
Recording, transcription, summaries, and minutes need no internet connection, even on a network with no external access.
Nothing Calls Out
Scriber opens no outbound connection to an external service, so an isolated segment with no route out is a valid place to run it.
Verifiable at the Boundary
The firewall rules and network monitoring you already use can confirm that no traffic leaves for the outside.
No Copy at Determin
Determin never holds a recording, transcript, summary, or set of minutes from your installation.
Integration With Your Storage and Shares
Scriber works with storage you already operate instead of bringing its own. Recordings can arrive through a watched folder on the server, an S3-compatible bucket, or any mounted network share, fed by your conferencing tool, phone system, or dictation device. Finished documents are delivered to the folder or network share you choose, so results land where your access rights and file structure already apply.
For IT, that means no new external storage to approve and no parallel file system to secure. The permissions on a share decide who can read the minutes written to it, exactly as they do for any other file there. The automatic meeting transcription page describes the same pipeline from the user's side.
Retention, Backup, and Deletion Under Your Control
Recordings, transcripts, summaries, and minutes are written to your own storage, so the rules for them are yours as well. You set how long each is kept, include them in the backup regime you already run, and delete them on your own systems when a policy or a request requires it.
Deletion therefore means removing data from storage you administer, not filing a request with a vendor and taking its word for the result. Determin never holds a copy, so there is no second location to account for in a retention schedule or a deletion log.
GDPR by Architecture, for IT and Data Protection
Under Article 28 GDPR, a processor that handles personal data on your behalf normally requires a data processing agreement (Auftragsverarbeitung, AVV), because a separate party receives the data. With Scriber on-premise, the personal data in a recording is processed only on your own systems. No cloud processor receives the audio, and no transfer outside the EU takes place.
For IT and the data protection officer, that turns a vendor assessment into an architecture review: which server, which network segment, which storage, which access rights. The architecture supports your compliance work; it does not replace your data protection officer's assessment of your specific setup.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can on-premise transcription run on an air-gapped network?
Yes. Scriber runs entirely on your own server and has no outbound connection built in, so recording, transcription, and minutes need no internet access. It can run on a network with no external connectivity at all, including a segment your security team has isolated on purpose.
How can our IT team verify that nothing leaves the network?
At the network boundary. Place the Scriber server on a segment with no route out, or block its outbound traffic with firewall rules, and watch what happens. Nothing in Scriber calls out, so its work continues unchanged. Your team confirms the claim with its own tools rather than taking it on trust.
Which storage does Scriber read recordings from and write results to?
Storage you already operate. Recordings can come from a watched folder on the server, an S3-compatible bucket, or any mounted network share, and finished documents are delivered to the folder or network share you choose. Retention, backup, and deletion for all of it are set by you, on your own systems.
Do we need a data processing agreement (AVV) for on-premise transcription?
An AVV under Article 28 GDPR covers a processor that handles personal data on your behalf. With Scriber on-premise, the audio is processed on your own systems, not by a separate party, which changes that picture for the recordings themselves. Clarify your specific setup with your data protection officer; this is not legal advice.
Plan Your On-Premise Deployment With Us
We start with an initial consultation about your network and storage, then install and configure Scriber on your own hardware.