Scanning & OCR Services
[back to services menu]We provide end-to-end scanning and digitization services that will meet requirements for both print (in books as images or text) and electronic media (in e-books or for display on your web page).
How It Works
We scan your documents or books using scanners especially designed to handle books carefully. We scan at 600 dpi thus ensuring that the resulting image has high resolution for use in both print and in electronic media.
We offer mainly three types of services:
- "As is" conversion: The scanned pages are submitted as images without any improvements on our part. We will lay out the images on pages and submit them to you
- Scanned images with OCR: The scanned image is submitted to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) allowing the text on the scanned pages to be edited, if needed
- OCR with Proofreading: Given the fact that OCR is never accurate, we will compare the OCR output to the original text and compare to ensure that errors do not creep in
We can provide output in multiple formats including TIFF, PNG, JPG, GIF and PDF. A CD or DVD of the scanned images will be provided on request
This is only a rough estimate. Actual turnaround times may vary depending upon the complexity of the subject matter covered in the manuscript and the age of the book or documents being scanned.
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