Services Digitisation & Content Management. 600 People – India.

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& Content Management

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600 People – India

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Services

Digitisation Services

Bibliographic services

Content Management Services

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Digitisation Services

Full text capture of historic manuscripts

16th Century Church Records

17 & 18th century Census Records

18th and 19th Century Life Event Records

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Bibliographic Services

On site catalogue imaging Services

Retro Conversion of Catalogues

• MARC21• MODS

Finding Aids

• EAD

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Digitisation of Large volume of Print content

The UK parliamentary debates – The Hansard

16th - 18th Century American Texts

Legal texts and publications

Historic Newspapers

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AEL offers end-to-end solution fornewspaper digitisation.

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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

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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

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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.

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Scanning From Microfilm…

Advantages

Lower cost for scanning

Sometimes only microfilm is available

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Scanning From Microfilm…

Disadvantages

Poor microfilmingProcess & material technology of 50s & 60s

Poor Filming Methods

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Scanning from Paper…

Advantages

Excellent image &Text quality

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Scanning from Paper…

Badly Stored/ damaged original paper copies.

Higher cost of scanning

Disadvantages

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Content Segmentation – Page & article analyses

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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.

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OCR Problems

Most archival Newspapers yield low OCR accuracies.

Poor OCR Useless for OCR

AEL offers manual OCR clean-up options.• Headline re-key

• Proofread / re-key first few lines• Full page proofread

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Customized search solutions for the digitised archive

Madras

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Article level Metadata

METS ALTO MODS MIX

NewsML

Other metadata schemas

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Newspaper Digitisation Process

QualityAssurance

Content Export

Images from Paper & Microfilm

Scanning

Conversion flowWEB Search

Content database

Content

Content formatting

Zoning & article segmentation

DatabaseServer

OCR Text Images

XML metadataJpeg 2000 Images

PDF

OCR / Cleanup

ContentInput

Web Hosting

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