Information and data are becoming the lifeblood of the organisations in the new millenium. The organisations must learn how to use information effectively as competition will keep increasing and profit margins will be under pressure. Information should be stored in a manner that the retrieval is quick and storage safe and permanent. Paper records, books, journals and reports are not very handy as compared to CD-ROM when it comes to looking for a particular piece of information it may take some times weeks to compile the results. So we welcome you to look at the digitisation as a solution for the new millenium.
Benefits of digitisation
- Long term preservationof the documents.
- Archiving of all important documents at one place.
- Easy to use and customisable access to the information.
- Quick and focussed search of relevant information in terms of images and text.
- Easy dissemination of information through CD-ROM, Internet, Intranet and extranets.
Application Areas
The digitising applications are rapidly evolving around the world as computers are becoming an essential office and home equipment. Libraries, corporates, Government, Museums and Educational and research organisations are looking at various efficient storage and distribution application areas of the technology are as following.
- Books.
- Research Journals and Conference papers.
- Electronic catalogues and Brochures.
- Annual reports & price list.
- Products training manuals.
- Data base archiving.
- Movies, sounds and High quality image preservation.
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