Large Scale Digitization Success Factors

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Kirtas Technologies

November 20, 2008

Large Scale Digitization

Success Factors


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


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


•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


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




• 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



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!




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



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. 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





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


Today’s output may not be suitable to tomorrows needs without the “key”


Future Proof

E-books

Kindle

Sony Reader

METS/ALTO

NEXT?

Braille

Audio Books

Custom Compilations


• In large scale digitization, quality means longevity

• Quality digitization requires:– Strong standards– Faithful images– Accurate OCR– Thorough Metadata

CONCLUSION

Technology

Large Scale Digitization Success Factors