Countless editors are finding that a majority of their publications need to be reprinted or, more and more typically, are requiring on-line distribution due to the recognition of the Kindle and iPad. This is often a major problem if electronic data files are not accessible normally because of the books being produced before the period of present day computers as we understand them, or because digital copies have got misplaced someplace on the way or have become damaged or the information can no longer be opened up.
Modern day document scanning firms provide the capability to scan and OCR hard-copy editions of publications at a pretty fast rate, determined by things you require from the books themselves. For example, a simple textual content based publication with typical black text is a fairly easy fix as this is scanned comparatively easily on one of the industry strength scanners the business should have available. Usually the books are going to be scanned on large, oversized flatbed scanners a couple of sheets at the same time, however should you be prepared to allow the pages of the book to be removed, they are often scanned within a smaller sized scanner which can produce the pages more quickly.
The full publication will usually be scanned previous to OCR taking place. In case you don't know, OCR means Optical Character Recognition which is a way of finding textual content characters on the page and converting them to word information and these can be understood by word processing software such as 'Microsoft' Word. It is also feasible to scan and convert the pages in to a word searchable PDF, meaning that the data format will look the same as the book when it is scanned but every word might be understandable by the pc. These are generally, needless to say, influenced by the capacity of the OCR software and how readable the text is. Nearly all refined OCR software utilised by professional book scanning companies can find and reproduce textual content from most typical fonts from the previous Hundred years or so. Our company has scanned books that are more than 100 years old and papers that are even older than this for instance and, taking into consideration the paperwork continues to be in good condition, it's still likely to OCR the copy without an issue with a high accuracy.
Whether Ten or one hundred years old, most textbooks are still digitisable and may be quite simply modernised by making the publications electronic digital for them to be reproduced or made straight into electronic digital electronic books for being sold online.
Author Resource:
Steve Wright is advertising and marketing executive with Pearl Scan Solutions, an United Kingdom based document scanning and document management firm. We provide our refined book scanning service throughout the United Kingom from Edinburgh to Birmingham to London.
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