leta digitization services
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CONTENT DIGITIZATIONCONTENT DIGITIZATION
The possibility to convert physical documents and scanned materials into
easy-to-classify and electronically-searchable information.
What is content digitization?What is content digitization?
1.1.
Scanning/ Scanning/
ImportImport
1.1.
Scanning/ Scanning/
ImportImport
2.2.
Verify Verify
Page Page
FramesFrames
2.2.
Verify Verify
Page Page
FramesFrames
3.3.
Verify Verify
Layout Layout
ElementsElements
3.3.
Verify Verify
Layout Layout
ElementsElements
4.4.
Verify Verify
Page Page
Numbers, Numbers,
Page Page
HierarchyHierarchy
4.4.
Verify Verify
Page Page
Numbers, Numbers,
Page Page
HierarchyHierarchy
5.5.
Verify Verify
HierarchyHierarchy
5.5.
Verify Verify
HierarchyHierarchy
6.6.
OCROCR
6.6.
OCROCR
7.7.
ExportExport
7.7.
ExportExport
Digitization process workflowDigitization process workflow
StepStep 1 1 – Scanning/Import – Scanning/Import• Material type:
― Newspapers― Books― Magazines― Booklets― etc.
• Access type:― Original images― Digital images― Microfilm― etc.
Before importing, it is highly important to define each document’s metadata that are automatically captured in the program
Each document’s metadata may include:
StepStep 2 2 – Verify Page Frames (VPF) – Verify Page Frames (VPF)
• Basic operations:― Page deskew― Page cropping
• Advantages:― Possibility to correct
errors done while scanning:
▪ Align the page in the right direction/slant
▪ Cut off black scan borders
▪ Divide double spreads in half
▪ And more
Step Step 3 3 – Processing page layout – Processing page layout elements (VLE)elements (VLE)
• Basic operations: ―Combining or revising zones
―Deletion of unneeded zones
―Definition of zone types
• Advantages: ―Possibility to work in fullscreen mode ―Almost all operations may be performed with the mouse and a few keyboard keys
Step Step 4 4 – Verify Page Numbers / – Verify Page Numbers / Verify Page HierarchyVerify Page Hierarchy
• Basic operations:― Verify page numbers― Verify page hierarchy― Verify issue date, number,
volume and edition
• Advantages:― If the metadata include
correct information on a given publication, this step may be skipped
― Possibility to replace missing pages
Step Step 5 5 – Verify Hierarchy (VH)– Verify Hierarchy (VH)
• Basic operations:― Structuring publication
articles, sections― Checking if picture/table
captions are added to the right picture/table
o Book structure is different from newspaper structure
• Advantages:― Possibility to correct
mistakes that may have been made during any of the previous steps
Step Step 6 6 - OCR- OCR
• Basic operations:― Correcting the required
textual zone type
• Advantages:― Possibility to correct any
text zone (headings, authors, picture captions, etc.), if the integrated ABBYY program finds errors in the text
― Possibility to change language or typeface
Step Step 7 7 - Export- Export
• Pursuant to the client’s requirements, the program automatically exports the file as defined in the specification
• Material for publishing on the Internet― File formats:
▪ JPEG, PNG, TIFF etc.▪ PDF, structured PDF▪ XML (mets, alto, mods
etc.)
We offer our services forWe offer our services for
• Libraries―Searchable archive―Digital preservation of
cultural and historical heritage
―Ease of adaption for Internet
• Publishers―Searchable archive―Repeated use of
content―Ease of adaptation for
Internet―Business opportunity –
to sell content
Our experienceOur experience
• Digitization project of National Library of Latvia ― Period: July 2010 – June 2012― Volume: 1 562 500 book pages, 2 750 000 periodical pages― Daily export: 10 000 pages― In cooperation with soft provider CCS
• Digitization project of Italian newspaper «LA STAMPA»― Period: May 2009 – March 2010 ― Electronic archive for last 120 years ― 800 000 pages― In cooperation with soft provider Zissor
• LETA Media monitoring― In operation since 2006― Monthly we scan and electronically process more than 30 000 A4 pages of
printed press ― In cooperation with soft provider Zissor
Our advantagesOur advantages
• Successful cooperation with largest European content conversion software providers – Zissor, CCS
• Professional and highly qualified team of 50 employees
• Competitive and affordable pricing policy
Pricing policyPricing policy
• Pricing
- to buy each phase separately (scanning, segmentation, content portal)
- to buy whole package of digitization• Price
- price is set for processed page depending on material difficulty (material quality, number of pictures/ captions, columns etc.)
ContactsContactsIeva Portnaja
Head of Digitization Department
Phone: +371 22322733
E-mail: [email protected]
www.leta.lv