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The Digitizing Line aims to remove human labor from fastidious pages turning when scanning books. During a normal process, human intervention is limited to loading and unloading a book.
The Digitizing Line is designed for producing the best quality of digital image from a large variety of books independently of the paper, binding structure, page format or thickness.
The Digitizing Line is an industrial product with a tremendous capacity that allows producing digital Images in the most cost and time effective way. Typically it allows reducing scanning production costs below 2 cents per page.The Digitizing Line is an automatic machine that suppresses dependence of operator efficiency, ability to separate pages or quality of presenting the pages to the camera. The Digitizing Line picks up and separates pages with unique repetitiveness that provides optimal throughput. Therefore a large scanning project may be easily sized in time.
The Digitizing Line integrates many time saving features such as the ability to use "presets". A preset is a recipe of parameters that are optimized for a given collection of books.
The Digitizing Line produces in unattended operation. Regular human intervention is needed only for loading and unloading the book. The complete process for loading and unloading takes less than 1 minute per book when using presets or less then 2 minutes when setting a new book type.
The Digitizing Line produces digital Images prepared at an optimum quality for OCR and further format conversions.
The Digitizing Line takes place at the first phase of a scanning project, in which the information is captured from the paper book to a digital image formed of pixels and saved to a folder as a file, such as TIFF or JPEG. Then, this image may be processed by any standard or custom image treatment. Finally it may be converted to any subsequent document format according to a wide variety of customer requirement, needs and applications.
Compared to any other competitor solution, the Digitizing Line is built following severe industrial requirements in order to ensure process reliability and the longest lifetime. It is designed to operate 24 hours a day and up to 6 millions of cycles before regular maintenance.
The Digitizing Line is designed for customers with medium to large projects, knowing that currently one Digitizing Line may be financially amortized at about 3 millions of pages.
Currently typical customers are: • Large Universities and Research Libraries • Scanning Service Providers • Corporate Archiving Services • Governmental Institutions