& Content Management

600 People – India

Services

Digitisation Services

Bibliographic services

Content Management Services

Digitisation Services

Full text capture of historic manuscripts

16th Century Church Records

17 & 18th century Census Records

18th and 19th Century Life Event Records

Bibliographic Services

On site catalogue imaging Services

Retro Conversion of Catalogues

• MARC21• MODS

Finding Aids

• EAD

Digitisation of Large volume of Print content

The UK parliamentary debates – The Hansard

16th - 18th Century American Texts

Legal texts and publications

Historic Newspapers

AEL offers end-to-end solution fornewspaper digitisation.

Archival Newspaper Digitisation

A complete Solution for the historic newspaper Digitisation:

On-site / Off-site Scanning of Paper or microfilm

OCR and clean up

Article level Zoning

Quality Assurance

Hosting & Search solutions

Micrographic services

Micrographic lab that can scan and print 16mm or 35 mm microfilms, Microfiche or aperture cards to 600 DPI Tiff images.

Capable of scanning up to 40,000 frames / day

Reprographic services

Scanning for Newspapers & large format documents

Overhead non contact scanning with minimal damage to original pages

Capable of scanning up to 10,000 broadsheet pages /day

Colour scanning with 10,200 pixels

Image Enhancement:Cropping, de-skew, de-speckle, Lighting corrections, histogram adjustment, Filter, Geometrical corrections.

Scanning From Microfilm…

Advantages

Lower cost for scanning

Sometimes only microfilm is available

Scanning From Microfilm…

Disadvantages

Poor microfilmingProcess & material technology of 50s & 60s

Poor Filming Methods

Scanning from Paper…

Advantages

Excellent image &Text quality

Scanning from Paper…

Badly Stored/ damaged original paper copies.

Higher cost of scanning

Disadvantages

Content Segmentation – Page & article analyses

AEL uses third party software tools as well as own tools for article segmentation

Automatic zoning & article segmentation software is not perfect!

Manual correction of the segmentation is required for 20-40% of the articles.

OCR Problems

Most archival Newspapers yield low OCR accuracies.

Poor OCR Useless for OCR

AEL offers manual OCR clean-up options.• Headline re-key

• Proofread / re-key first few lines• Full page proofread

Customized search solutions for the digitised archive

Madras

Article level Metadata

METS ALTO MODS MIX

NewsML

Other metadata schemas

Newspaper Digitisation Process

QualityAssurance

Content Export

Images from Paper & Microfilm

Scanning

Conversion flowWEB Search

Content database

Content

Content formatting

Zoning & article segmentation

DatabaseServer

OCR Text Images

XML metadataJpeg 2000 Images

PDF

OCR / Cleanup

ContentInput

Web Hosting

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