| CASE STUDY 1: Preventing further damage.
The customer needed to maintain an archive of construction
drawings relating to their premises. The drawings were
kept in a loft and needed to be made more accessible
and stored electronically. They had originally been
printed on thick 'tracing' paper, then tightly rolled.
Every time that a drawing was unrolled for viewing or
copying, its condition deteriorated. Attempts to scan
the drawings had added to the damage.
The solution was to microfilm the drawings (non-contact
process) then scan the microfilm into digital images,
converted into the required size, format etc. To aid
retrieval electronically, an MS-ACCESS database was
provided that allowed immediate viewing of any chosen
drawing. |
CASE STUDY 2 - Preserving history.
A Council library wished to provide historic documents
via the web, CD and other media. Some needed to be scanned
at very high resolution (800dpi), in full colour and
without quality loss through compression.
The work involved scanning, cropping, quality control
and indexing for retrieval. In addition, some postcards
were printed using a process called 'halftone' and this
had to be allowed for in the scanning process to avoid
interference patterns (moire) being visible at different
levels of enlargement.
To date, more than 2,000 cards and photos have been
prepared to the required standard and more are scheduled
for 2006. |
| CASE STUDY 3 - The first of its kind.
Another Council (Local Studies Centre) has just completed
a unique 'Heritage Lottery-funded' project.
It is the first and only project of its kind in the
UK and included the microfilming and digitising of all
Parish Registers, covering several large towns and adjacent
villages.
The project has taken 14 months to complete and digital
capture, 'quality control' and image conversion (for
both quality and web publication) was managed by JAK
Computing.
The same Council has since commissioned other smaller
'imaging' projects for video to DVD conversion and '8mm
Cine' film digitisation.
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FURTHER PROJECTS.
- Conversion of scanned books to editable text.
- Search and retrieval system for 19th Century Census
Records
- Digitisation and 'cleanup' of damaged Library books
- 'MultiMedia' promotional CD production
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