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& Content Management. Digitisation. Services. 600 People – India. Services. Digitisation Services Bibliographic services Content Management Services. Digitisation Services. Full text capture of historic manuscripts 16 th Century Church Records 17 & 18 th century Census Records

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  1. & Content Management Digitisation Services

  2. 600 People – India

  3. Services • Digitisation Services • Bibliographic services • Content Management Services

  4. Digitisation Services • Full text capture of historic manuscripts • 16th Century Church Records • 17 & 18th century Census Records • 18th and 19th Century Life Event Records

  5. Bibliographic Services • On site catalogue imaging Services • Retro Conversion of Catalogues • MARC21 • MODS • Finding Aids • EAD

  6. Digitisation of Large volume of Print content • The UK parliamentary debates – The Hansard • 16th - 18th Century American Texts • Legal texts and publications • Historic Newspapers

  7. AEL offers end-to-end solution fornewspaper digitisation.

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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.

  11. Scanning From Microfilm… Advantages Sometimes only microfilm is available Lower cost for scanning

  12. Scanning From Microfilm… Disadvantages Poor microfilming Process & material technology of 50s & 60s Poor Filming Methods

  13. Scanning from Paper… Advantages Excellent image & Text quality

  14. Scanning from Paper… Disadvantages Badly Stored/ damaged original paper copies. Higher cost of scanning

  15. Content Segmentation – Page & article analyses

  16. 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.

  17. OCR Problems Most archival Newspapers yield low OCR accuracies. Useless for OCR Poor OCR AEL offers manual OCR clean-up options. • Headline re-key • Proofread / re-key first few lines • Full page proofread

  18. Customized search solutions for the digitised archive Madras

  19. Article level Metadata • METS • ALTO • MODS • MIX • NewsML • Other metadata schemas

  20. Newspaper Digitisation Process Conversion flow WEB Search Images from Paper & Microfilm Scanning Content Content Input Content formatting Zoning & article segmentation Database Server Content database Content Export OCR / Cleanup Quality Assurance OCR Text Images XML metadata Jpeg 2000 Images PDF Web Hosting

  21. Thank you

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