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featuring PPS:
- non-destructing scanning
- own bookbinder inhouse
- each step in our process is available separately
- binding books
- scanning
- digital processing
- cleaning (removing spots, filling holes)
- straighten
- cropping
- adjusting borders
- OCR, adjustments by dictionary (any language)
- story/article separation, PDF reading optimization
- export of created data in any format (for importing in customers DMS/CMS); eg. PDF, XML, METS/ALTO, DFG compliant
- PPS_Finder available as optimized search/find engine for archive data and actual/daily data as well (enterprise solution for any documents)
what are we digitizing:
- newspapers
- magazines
- books
- single page collections
- photos (prints)
- large format prints (up to DIN A2 / 420 x 594mm, eg. maps)
- continuous paper (up to 6m length by 30mm width)
- microfilm
- film strip
digitizing photo archives:
- scanning 2-sides (duplex, front and backside)
- up to DIN A3 / 297 x 420 mm
- OCR of backside (date stamp, numbering, Datum, photographer, image subtext)
- using image feature detection to find used same/used photo in photo archive and newspaper (finding both ways: archived photo in newspaper and used newspaper image in photo archive)
photo and newspaper archive in combination – some benefits:
- automatic replacement of printed newspaper images with hires scanned photos. Will rise reprint quality dramatically.
- find used images for reselling (original, reprint, or image file (eg. a society is asking for images used in newspaper 50 years ago … you’ll be able to offer them…)
- anniversary newspapers with automatically replaced high resolution images
additional information on OCR quality:
- OCR error rate less than 0,1% for Antiqua characters and 0,25% for Fraktur characters (scanned by PPS). But OCR errors in characters are not that relevant, because there is a automatic word correction and at the end a search engine will allow lazy searches on word (similar results)
additional accomplishments:
- Consulting/workshops for funding and how to get money with a digital archive
a look ahead (very near future):
- image analysis with trained neural networks (face detection, people detection, object detection, …)
- article/image blackening (deleting articles and images in data) to eg. prevent copyright theft (missing approval from freelancer editor/reporter)
how to fund the scanning/digitizing:
- offered as consulting / workshop based on your particular need
refinancing – how to make new money from archive:
- offered as consulting / workshop based on your particular need
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