Library Digitisation Service
The management and staff offer a complete service and are to happy to advise clients on their digitisation requirements.
The Library Digitisation Unit was launched in May 2010 and incorporates the well established BOPCRIS Digitisation Unit.
An integrated workflow is utilised to ensure high standards of quality control for all materials digitised.
Documents suitable for digitisation
- Books, journals, magazines, ledgers
- Printed texts, drawings, maps and manuscripts
- Rare and valuable books
On-site storage of materials
- Secure onsite storage of materials
- Storage in temperature controlled environment
Available scanning procedures
- Hand scanning of fragile single sheet materials
- Capture from bound volumes without destroying the binding
- High volume scanning of single/double sided unbound A4 sheets
Digital Image output
- Black and white, grey and colour (1-bit, 8-bit, 24-bit colour depth)
- True resolution output 200-600 dots per inch (dpi)
- Output formats include TIFF, JPG, searchable PDF
- Abbyy is used for ocr of printed texts, including specialist fonts and foreign languages
- Standard compliant metadata
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