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CCS is a pioneer and business leader in making information available through digitization. Founded in 1976, CCS provides the workflow to digitization books, journals and newspapers through microfilm/microfiche and physical reproduction through capture, conversion, presentation and storage. This process uses OCR and Layout Analysis to provide a smooth, automated, quality-secured and economic production process. We are experts in Metadata and support open standards: METS/ALTO/PREMIS/MODS/ and digital preservation such as OAIS. We provide software as well as a service bureau for mass digitization projects. We have been involved with the NDNP program since the beginning including working for OCLC, UC-Riverside, University of Minnesota and the Library of Congress. We are currently working with many Cultural Heritage Organizations including National Library of Norway, National Library of Finland, The British Library, National Library of Singapore plus some elite Universities in the USA- Harvard, Stanford, and University of Texas.
Please visit their website for more information: http://www.ccs-gmbh.de/en/welcome.htm
The Crowley Company is the industry leader in providing quality solutions to both the digital and analog information industry with leading-edge document conversion systems and services to libraries, archives, governments and commercial clients. Our hardware divisions – including Mekel, Extek, and HF, offer a complete array of equipment and services including high speed scanners, film processors and duplicators, and step & repeat cameras. Crowley is the exclusive US distributor of AGFA film as well as Zeutschel and Microbox products. Crowley Micrographics offers in-house and on-site archival preservation microfilming, digital document imaging, document and image reformatting, microfilm and microfiche digitizing and the sales and support of hardware and software solutions for advanced document conversion requirements. Our client base includes Time-Life Pictures, the Smithsonian Institute and the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Find out how The Crowley Company can help your organization by visiting www.thecrowleycompany.com
HOV Services - LASON (www.hovservices.com or www.lason.com) enables organizations to secure their decisions and their future by improving business processes through outsourced services in industries that are data and document-intensive, such as financial services and healthcare where accuracy, privacy and security are top concerns. Our customized solutions provide substantial and identifiable cost savings. HOV Services - LASON's integrated suite of solutions utilizes the latest technology surrounding data input, scanning, including the resale of Wicks and Wilson production Rollfilm and Microfiche scanning products, digital storage, retrieval and delivery of sensitive data and documents to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of back-office and administrative functions.
IImage Retrieval, Inc (IIRI) was founded in 1990 by CEO and President, Derek Jenkins. It has been involved in the microfilm digitizing and document scanning industry since its inception. IIRI had the first SunRise scanner ever produced. In 2002 IIRI saw that none of the equipment manufacturers' were taking advantage of huge advances in the digital technologies. So, IImage Retrieval owners and one of the founders of SunRise started nextScan. With the other engineers in the Idaho offices, IIRI helped design and develop the NextScan, Phoenix and Eclipse products. Driven by customer requests and new market potentials, IIRI decided to expand their product line. In 2001 the US book scanning market was just beginning to take shape. IIRI’s knowledge of digital arrays and image scanning was just as valuable & useful in book scanning as film scanners so IIRI chose to become the US distributors for the rare/archival book scanners produced by i2s. This line of high resolution, color or monochrome, planetary scanners complimented their film scanning knowledge and meant that IIRI could service, support, train and help set up scanning departments for the growing book scanning industry with very little internal change or additional training.
OCLC Preservation Service Centers have been involved in some of the first newspaper digitization projects--most recently, the NEH/LC National Digital Newspaper Project (NDNP). To date, they have scanned and processed over 2 million newspaper pages. Clients include the University of California (Riverside) NDNP project, the British Library, the National Library of New Zealand's Digital Newspaper Program as well as many stateside projects for consortia, universities or historical societies.
To preserve the item's quality during conversion, as well as to facilitate export and transfer to various content management systems, they use docWORKS Newspaper Edition software. docWorks was developed by CCS (Content Conversion Specialists) http://www.content-conversion.com/ and is based on the specifications of the National Digital Newspaper Program. They also offer metadata creation services, content management tools and the power of WorldCat—to increase the visibility of unique newspaper collections.
OCLC Preservation Service Center also offers preservation microfilming, has an on-site microfilm processing operation, microfilm duplication, and print master storage. OCLC celebrated its 20th anniversary of microfilm service this year.
Planman Technologies specializes in providing end-to-end digitization and consulting services to its clients which includes more than 8 national libraries, several university libraries, newspaper publishing houses from across the globe, and other corporate clients. We are a 2500+ company working in a state-of-the-art 30,000 sq ft facility in New Delhi, India.
Planman plays an active role in the archival digitization movement. We are working with different libraries, universities and governments at national levels across the globe. Planman has digitized more than 9 million pages of newspapers from the 18th century to the 21st, for national and academic research libraries, local historical societies, newspaper publishers and commercial aggregators. We digitize source documents and microform, microfiche as well as hard copy newspapers.
We also offer born digital newspaper solutions that address conversion and transformation of print-ready newspaper PDF files. We manage volume content on tight daily deadlines -- as short as 3 hour turn- around times -- for UK and US newspaper publishers. Each day Planman Technologies receives no fewer than 88 tabloid newspapers, or the equivalent of 5,000 pages in the form of PDF files via FTP, and processes them in 3 hours or less. Please contact Frederick Zarndt at frederick.zarndt@planmanconsulting.com for more information.