Scan, Documentary Engineering
Magazines, Monographs, Newspapers, paper catalogs, Registers, Parchments, Old books, Plans, Posters, Postcards, Photos, Microfiche, Microfilms, Glass plates, Video in all formats, etc.

“Digitizing is a gesture that is becoming necessary today to preserve information indefinitely, with ease of access and distribution”

PROPOSED SERVICES

  • Document scanning, image retouching and indexing:

    Infoscribe digitizes all documents regardless of their media (paper, microfilm, microfiche, bound or not, etc.) and their formats (A5 or A0).

  • Conversion to text mode (OCR):

    This technique allows, when the documents are suitable for it, automatic recognition of characters and generates significant savings in costs and time. The objective is to access information and allow full-text searches.

  • Indexing and generation of descriptive metadata:

    Indexing according to the METS scheme also allowing the connection between physical pages and digitized pages.

  • Structuring texts in SGML, XML, HTML or ALTO format:

    o structured entries in XML format from paper media

  • Processing tables of contents:

    Reliability of table text recognition with very high quality rates. XML (TEI) structuring of tables in order to obtain interactive summaries or entry of table entries in the margins of PDF files (bookmarks).

  • Entering text or data:

    Manual entry "by the kilometer", enriched or with styling from printed, typed or handwritten texts.

MATERIEL

Our equipment covers opaque, transparent, very large documents with the most restrictive fragility or workability characteristics.
Depending on the documentary specificities of your project and your expectations, Infoscribe selects the most suitable scanners.

EXPERTISE

Our expertise in digital imaging technologies supports you in your projects by integrating your objectives from the reflection phase:
  • Conservation: legal conservation, preservation of data integrity, patrimonial strength, etc.
  • Consultation: respect and translation of business requirements in the new mode of digital access and operation
  • Dissemination: contextual research, integration of the client's business specificities in the choice of technological solutions selected and implemented.
  • Return on investments: m² savings, limitation of the costs of physically consulting documents, reduction of the time needed to consult the rooms, etc.

MEETS STANDARDS

Our working methods and our production comply with AFNOR recommendations, and particularly with: