Ecublens, Switzerland May 11th 2011 - 4DigitalBooks is not only known for manufacturing the highest quality of truly unattended automatic book scanning technology, the company is also providing since 7 years a unique high quality scanning with its scanning service bureau.

The Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire de Lausanne has decided to outsource the digitization of 2.2 Millions pages of bound newspapers. This project is managed in collaboration with the Swiss National Library and the newspaper group Edipresse.

Based on its unique experience and using its Digitizing Line scanners combined with Page Improver software solution, 4DigitalBooks was able to offer a complete end-to-end service with expected quality levels at a competitive price.

"We are proud to have been selected for this project where the combination of 4DigitalBook experience and the use of our technologies makes the difference regarding competition" said Ivo Iossiger, President of 4DigitalBooks – Assy S.A.

Newspapers from 1762 for the oldest, will be scanned with 4DigitalBooks scanners at 300 dpi, then processed with 4DigitalBooks Page Improver software and finally with ABBYY Recognition Server OCR.

"We are working with 4DigitalBooks since long years and we were always very satisfied by their services. 4DigitalBooks is a reference for this kind of projects, providing a highly professional offer in Switzerland" said Silvio Corsini, Project Manager and Conservator from the Bibliothèque cantonale universitaire de Lausanne.

For more information please contact:

Ivo Iossiger
President, 4DigitalBooks
Tel : +41 21 697 06 66
ivo.iossiger@4digitalbooks.com