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EOD – the serviceOverview
Libraries workflow
End-users view
EOD and the Functional Extension ParserThe Functional Extension Parser (FEP)
Integration into the workflow
Current status
EOD – the service
What is EOD?Network of libraries
Digitisation on demand for copyright-free books
Started 2006 co-founded by the EC in eTEN program
Delivering digitised books since 2007
EOD – the service
EOD button: digitising this
book on request
Incorporation into Digital Library &
Europeana
Library: scans & transfers
images
Who is currently offering the service?
> 30 libraries, 12 countries
EOD libraries
AustriaUniversity Libraries of Innsbruck, Graz and Vienna (2x),Vienna City Library
GermanyBavarian State Library (Munich), University Libraries of Regensburg, Greifswald, Berlin (Humboldt University), Saxon State Library (Dresden), STABI Berlin
Denmark Royal Library
Estonia National Library, University Library of Tartu
France Academic health library (Paris)
Hungary National Széchényi Library of Hungary, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Science
Portugal National Library
Slovakia University Library of Bratislava, Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovenia National and University Library
Sweden University Library of Umeå, National Library of Sweden
Switzerland National Library of Switzerland, Library at Guisanplatz
Czech Republic
Moravian Library (Brno), Research Library in Olomouc, National Technical Library, Library of the Czech Academy
EOD – the service
What is being digitisedOnly public domain books according to
laws and regulations of the libraries' country
Aim: „Full informational capture“Whole books cover to cover
Virtually counted blank pages
Supplements (maps, tables, …) that form an integral part of the document
EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view
Central services used by libraries Web application for the administration of orders
and generation of eBooks Automation of communication (automated e-mails
to end-users, tracking page with status update) OCR (optical character recognition) services:
antiqua and gothic font NEW: Structural Analysis (FEP) Delivery of CD-ROMs (optional) Preprint preparation for reprint orders (optional) Reprint creation and delivery Central management of credit card payments
Carried out locally at library sites
Scanning and uploading of material
Handling orders in Order Data Manager
Uploading to local digital repositories
Long term storage
EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view
Workflow for the librariesOrder arrives
Order the book in the library
Check the order details (can it be digitised, correct automatically fetched metadata)
Scan book cover to cover
Upload the images
Start eBook generation
Check results and finish the order
EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view
EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view
Ebook generationConfiguring settings
Resolution and jpeg quality
With or without OCR
OCR settings (language, font type)
Deskew despeckle
Start eBook generation
Create EOD cover pages
Alternatively generate eBook locally
EOD: The Libraries‘ point of view
The library can download the OCR output as zipped single pages xml and as RTF
Use in local repository (e.g. full text search)
Digitisation for the visually impaired
Possible full text correction
Conversion to other formats (e.g. ePub)
No structural information. Requests for METS/ALTO output until now
The end-users point of view
The end-users point of view
Find the record of the book in catalogue
Click EOD button
Fill out orderform
1-2 weeks delivery time depending on the library
Pay online
Download and use
The catalogue situation diverse and dispersedOPACsDigitised card cataloguesUnion catalogues
The EOD search engineIn addition to the EOD button in the libraries'
catalogueshttp://search.books2ebooks.eu3 million records of digitisable and digitised items19 EOD libraries already integrated their records
The end-users point of view
The end-users point of view
eBooks on Demand and the Functional Extension Parser
EOD and the FEP
MotivationImprove output for libraries
Structural information
METS/ALTO
Improve output for end-users Enhance PDF with clickable TOC
EOD and the FEP
PrerequisitesXML output of OCR of complete document
Images of the scanned document
Coordinates of the OCR xml must correspond with the coordinates in the images (deskew images before)
Quality of the scans and OCR as good as possible
FEP works with the XML output of EOD eBook generation
Automatically extracts structural information about the documentPage numbers
Table of Contents
Offers webinterface to manually correct enhance the result
EOD and the FEP
Integration of FEP into EOD workflowRegular EOD eBook generation
Operators decide if FEP is possible/usefulScan quality
OCR quality
Structure of the book
Start automatic recognition
Check/correct/modify results in FEP webinterface
EOD and the FEP
Operator finds books with automatically recognized structure in the FEP webinterface and can then enhance/correct the recognized printspace, pagination and TOC (optionally also the logical structure)
EOD and the FEP
After all correction steps are doneMETS/ALTO files
Enhanced PDF
If results are ok Replace regular PDF with enhanced PDF
by uploading to ODM via FTP
End-users download enhanced PDF as usual through their EOD trackingpage
EOD and the FEP
EOD and the FEP
Current statusInterface OrderDataManager – FEP core
implemented and workflow adapted Internal testing phase finishedOnline and offline workshops to familiarize EOD
operators on FEP correction webinterface were held
Ready for production environmentBetatesting and feedback period with 10
selected EOD network libraries until end of July
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