Content Digitization Services

Introduction

Digital conversion services for conversion of hard copy documents to digital format and/or upgrade e-documents to higher e-formats as per long-term digitization policy. Digitization of any content structure be it Old archival grade manuscripts, books, journals, articles, documents, thesis, photographs, audios, videos, maps and/or over size documents to desired output format.

Output Options:

Output options are based on Archival and Retrieval strategy of organization for management of its digital content (both born digital and digitized output), security policy and user spread (Local Area or internet).

A simple view only without any rights, Print-search-download option, content delivery on mobile devices, variable publishing requirements are examples of options in security and delivery strategy.

Special services: Consultancy and execution of

1.Metadata Definition
2.Creation of metadata for documents.
3.Migration of content items in their METS packaging from one repository to another.

Digital Conversion Services

i.Digitization
ii.Scanning and Beyond
iii.Data and Image Processing

Digitization

Production Objectives for a process should align with future digital strategies of the organization and also security from rapidly evolving content management philosophy. Process should be driven by standards which are going to last and are not proprietary in nature.
 
The Production Steps need to incorporate all the project specific objectives created for the client. Test run to qualify the process and Quality checks standard output are important points to be taken care of.

Scanning and Beyond

Scanning process is to take image of the physical object. Scanning process and specialized hardware to use are key to security of valuable content. Scanning process can broadly be classified as under solely based on content type

• Document Scanning
• Hard Bound Book Scanning
• Newspapers and Periodicals
• Photograph Scanning
• Manuscript Scanning
• Rare and Fragile loose material scanning
• Rare & fragile book scanning
• Imaging on 16mm/35 mm celluloid (microfilming)
• 16mm/35 mm Microfilm digitization
• Optical Mark Reader (OMR) solutions

Flexibility

• We are capable to handle varied input sources:
• Large format documents, drawings, Foldouts up to ‘A0’ size
• Books and records up to A2 size
• Rare and fragile content material (manuscripts, very fragile and rare documents etc)

Image Processing: Scanned images always come with some faults, despite best of breed hardware in use. Thus require careful processing without changing its original structure. Standards related to mode, format, resolution, size, look etc are required to be corrected while processing the image.

XML-XHTML, Epub and other formats are for content distribution through internet, instant availability of formats, online publishing, content reuse and variable publishing need.

For Documents:

• DR 6010, 2010 Canon high speed Document scanner
• Canon, HP A3 flatbed scanner

For Rare Bound Books and Fragile Documents:

• Zeutschel OS 12000 A2 Face up scanner with perfect book (Best in the world)
• V Scanners with 18 MB imaging heads for Bound books
• Face up scanners  with cradle for over size documents up to A0 size

For Photographs:

• Umax Flatbed scanner

For Deep Archiving:

• 35mm microfilm scanner and Camera