Historic Digitisation

Until recently, migrating historic or archival content online was technologically unachievable and then even with advancements in technology both unreliable and cost prohibitive. Issues including an inability to recognise text due to poor image quality, large image files and copying issues precluded accurate searching and created a poor reading experience online.

X-CAGO’s unique and patented software “ClipWorX” automatically creates a digital archive as it distils the content with the software building XML files for every single page, article or photo. The first of its kind, this Page Segmentation Software “understands” the structure of a publication’s pages, deconstructing every single page into constituent articles, images, and advertisements as applicable.

By implementing X-CAGO’s Archive ExPress, a client’s customers can find and read articles exactly as they have appeared in the original publication. A degraded image or poor readability is no longer an issue: the digitally captured information does not change over time, no matter how many people access it. Since the archive is accessed online, it can be made available anytime and anywhere. No longer is time or location a barrier for providing access – free or paid – to content in the archive.

Beyond the newspaper and magazine digitisation services described in this document, X-CAGO can also provide digitisation services including via intranet and internet for the publishing of books and photographic collections including negatives and slides.