Newspaper digitization
Lister’s e-paper solutions provide both conversions of current and archival contents for the newspaper market. Our rich experience facilitates smooth handling of technical and logistical complexities of projects with which we specialize in digitizing newspapers.
With most of our clients, our process generally starts with a High Resolution Scanning. The scanning includes microfilms, microfiche, aperture cards as well as hard copy newspapers. The material is generally scanned in to TIFF/JPEG format. We also do further classification and segmentation of metadata both at article and page level before delivering the output as searchable PDF or METS/ALTO XML formats.
Newspaper Digitization can be classified into two categories:
- Archive Newspapers
- Current Newspapers
Digitization of Archive Newspapers
Lister has digitized large numbers of newspapers from the 18th to 21st century for national and academic research libraries, local historical societies, newspaper publishers and commercial aggregators around the globe.
Process
For newspapers to be available for online search, Lister follows the below mentioned methodology
Digitization of Current Newspapers
Lister also offers solutions that provide conversion of current newspapers into a digital format. Our experienced professionals take utmost care during the conversion process so as to avoid any errors that could lead to mis-communication. The team is well equipped to handle tight deadlines on a daily basis and the capacity to deliver 5,000 pages to 6,000 pages of e-papers per day. We convert all the PDF files to HTML and XML using customized XSLT-s.
We convert the files to HTML/XML from common sources like PDF, Quark, PageMaker,
Ms-word, word perfect and many other formats.
Process
For tabloids to be available for online search, Lister follows the below mentioned
methodology
Lister ensures the use of on-line formatting to avoid imperfections such as
- Removing the incorrect placement of <P> tag in the middle of paragraphs
- Proper handling of emphasis – bold, italic and underline
- Proper handling of drop caps and drop shadows
- Removal of random spaces in words
- Addition of spaces in random words that run together
- Proper conversion of tables into <TABLE> tag
- Identifying the jumps and placing it in the right logical order
Experienced project management teams
Lister’s conversion experts help clients to custom-design the best quality and most
cost-effective digitization plan. Our experienced and dedicated project managers have the capability to handle tight deadlines on a daily basis and the capacity to deliver 5,000 pages to 6,000 pages per day. Thus we ensure that your content is of high quality, consistent with your priorities and delivered on schedule.
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