Digitization for Greater Visibility and Accuracy

The broad use of the internet has paved the way for various innovative technologies and techniques. Digitization of content is a relatively new technique that has come to the aid of libraries, publishing houses and government agencies transforming their printed content to digital content.

Digitizing is an easy solution for the protection and preservation of not only handwritten but also of typewritten and printed materials. The life of cultural artifacts, rare and dated documents, unique historical works, microfilm archives can be extended for a long period of time by digitization as it reduces the over-handling of the original materials.

Digital content has a wider reach and greater accessibility. With today's generation spending more their time on the web, an important advantage of digital conversion is that it helps content reach a bigger and much wider audience. Digital content is flexible unlike paper or printed text as digital files can be compressed, transferred, edited, reformatted and printed.

Digital publishing services make use of the latest OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to eliminate any scope of error when translating images to machine editable text. It uses a dictionary to correct common errors like ambiguous words and spelling mistakes. This increases image quality and accuracy resulting in fast electronic search and retrieval, which is the ultimate goal of digitization.

The OCR-ed text is then converted into XML or SGML formats with the help of DTD (Document Type Definition) schema language. Now there are a variety of DTDs available which include simple ISO 12083 or TEI-Lite based DTDs, complex ATA 100 specification aircraft industry-based DTDs and Ovid DTDs. The result of which is well-structured, efficient and dynamic end-products. Such content transformation leads to quality-rich and easy to find content on the net.