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© 2008 Kirtas Technologies, Inc. | Proprietary & Confidential
Kirtas Technologies
November 20, 2008
Large Scale Digitization
Success Factors
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Today’s Agenda
• Large scale digitization overarching trends– Financial Impacts
– Digitization Location
• Large scale digitization
- Requirements and Success Factors
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Overarching Trends
• Current Financial Realities– Recognition of value of
content– Greater desire for
commercialization of content– Requirements for projects to
have the ability to be self funding or partially offset digitization investment
Financial Impact
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Overarching Trends
• Focus on “packaged” collections
– Organized for sale– Organized for search– Focus on organization of material for
content providers– Development of mechanism for retail
channels
Financial Impact
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Overarching Trends
Greater acceptance of the digitization of rare and fragile materials
Less willingness for books to be moved from existing controlled environments
More vendor flexibility required
Digitization Location
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•Preservation- Document integrity preserved- Optimum book positioning, less stress- Gentle Page handling
•Productivity- Fast setup, Maximum throughput-Automatic batch processing for minimal operator intervention
Large Scale Digitization Success Factors
Imperatives
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QualityState-of-the-art opticsAutomatic image processing & enhancement
AccessBetter search/data management with XMLEasier document repurposing with OCR (180
languages, inc R2L languages)Multiple file outputs
Large Scale Digitization Success Factors
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Large Scale Digitization Success Factors
• Quality– Digitize an object once
• Integrate foldouts and oversize material
– Rigorous Quality Control
• Metadata– Accessibility
• Better search/data management with XML• Easier document repurposing with OCR (177
languages)• Multiple file outputs
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Large Scale Digitization Success Factors
3 Pillars of Digitization
IMAGE
D I G I T I Z A T I O N
OCR
METADATA
STANDARDSIt's Not Scanning… It's Digitization!
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Large Scale Digitization Success Factors
3 Pillars of Digitization
1. IMAGES Capture - High Quality Images (Full
Color) Processing
Background removal & de-speckling Text block Alignment (Horiz & Vert) Contrast & brightness control Grayscale, bi-tonal reduction Image Segmentation
Output TIFF, JPG, JPG2000, PDF
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Large Scale Digitization Success Factors
2. OCR High level of Accuracy Repurposing (where OCR matters)
Online search eBooks Mobile devices Audio (text to speech), Braille Other emerging & future format
3 Pillars of Digitization
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3. Metadata Bibliographic
MARC ONIX
Structural XML Tagging METS – Structural ALTO – Down to the character, position, font Create new content – select & combine
Technical Scanning & Processing parameters
METS - Single file that includes all Metadata
Large Scale Digitization Success Factors
3 Pillars of Digitization
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Large Scale Digitization Success Factors
SCAN PROCESS QC
Mixed
B/W
GRAYSCALE
COLOR
Print-ready PDF
Web-enabled PDF
ALTO
TEXT + word Posn.
MS Word
Rescan
Reprocess
QA
Robust Workflow & Quality Control
OCR
Retouch
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Today’s output may not be suitable to tomorrows needs without the “key”
Large Scale Digitization Success Factors
Future Proof
E-books
Kindle
Sony Reader
METS/ALTO
NEXT?
Braille
Audio Books
Custom Compilations
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• In large scale digitization, quality means longevity
• Quality digitization requires:– Strong standards– Faithful images– Accurate OCR– Thorough Metadata
CONCLUSION