HISTORIC DIGITISATION
X-CAGO OFFERS DIGITISATION SERVICES FOR VIDEO, AUDIO, PHOTO AND PRINT MEDIA ARCHIVES.
Access to media archive collections made possible through digitisation has become increasingly important and valuable. Content owners and publishers are recognising the commercial value of their archival content and safeguarding their content for present and future generations.
Archival content, whether on paper, microfilm, PDF or videotape,has new life through digital conversion with full text access. X-CAGO’s patented digitisation technologies deliver services that can make any archive fully searchable on any device, from the entire issue down to an article and advertisement level.
X-CAGO'S DIGITISATION SERVICES ENABLE
Premium digitisation for optimal overview and high resolution.
Access to complete newspapers, magazines, books and other publications, page by page - as they appeared in the original print.
Enlargement of any article, photo or advertisement with one click.
Searching within a collection, for example, for all articles on a specific topic or area of interest, for editorial contributions, advertisements and the like.
Creation of interactive clipping files on topic areas for easy and immediate reference.
Digitisation of other media assets including photo, video and audio archives.
Transcription of video and audio archives through speech-to-text technologies.
Safeguarding and complete control over a library's assets.
FROM PAPER OR MICROFILM TO DIGITAL
Previously, conversion and digitisation of historical and archival content had not been possible and even with technological advances, the results were unreliable and often prohibitively expensive. Poor readability of texts due to poor image quality, large image files and copying problems prevented accurate searching and delivered unsatisfactory reading experiences online and on different devices.
However, X-CAGO's digitisation services benefit from deep experience, investment in research and development and the latest digitisation and scanning technologies that both preserve the original image and enhance the reproduction of the content for optimal digital viewing. Printed media from microfilm or paper is carefully scanned using the most advanced scanners on the market and converted by X-CAGO's unique, patented digital content capture technology. This produces the best, fully searchable results at the lowest cost.
FROM PDF TO DIGITAL
X-CAGO can also digitise old, printed content of an archive from PDF files.
CONVERSION TO A DIGITAL ARCHIVE
X-CAGO's unique and patented ‘ClipWorX’ software automatically creates a digital archive by distilling the content and creating XML files for each individual content piece whether from a page, article or photo. The first of its kind, this page segmentation software ‘understands’ the structure of a publication, including the continuation of content across multiple pages.
For accurate conversion, ‘ClipWorx’ can break down each page into its constituent parts including individual articles, images, advertisements, author and by-lines if applicable. Deeper conversion through ‘ClipWorX’ enables digitisation of other content items including puzzles, Sudoku, crosswords and recipes.
FULLY SEARCHABLE AND ACCESSIBLE VIA THE INTERNET
By implementing X-CAGO's ‘Archive ExPress™’, a publisher's customers can find and read articles exactly as they appeared in the original publication. Deteriorated 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 is available anytime, anywhere. Time and place are no longer an obstacle to accessing the archive's content - free of charge or for a fee at the publisher or content owners’ discretion.
X-CAGO has unrivalled expertise and technologies for accessing archived content in a secure Enterprise Content Management Platform, (ECM Platform). 'Please refer to the separate section titled 'Archive ExPress’.
OTHER DIGITISATION OF CONTENT
X-CAGO's digitisation services and technologies also extend to the digital conversion of photographic collections, including negatives and slides. In addition, X-CAGO is able to digitise audio and video archives. If desired, the text of this collection can be transcribed using Speech-to-Text technology in order to subsequently perform a full-text search.
X-CAGO can also offer fast and cost-effective Podcast conversion services recognising the proliferation or podcast content, and their monitoring by media monitoring organisations.
Here, too, speech-to-text technology is deployed to achieve an excellent end result automatically. Optionally, X-CAGO offers further editing services to obtain an absolutely error-free transcription.
For more information on best practices in digitising media content, see our online magazine 'From Analogue to Digital' at mag.x-cago.com
ADVICE & SOLUTIONS
X-CAGO’s solutions ensure the complex is made easy!
For any questions, please contact us. We will be happy to advise you and prepare a proposal tailored to your individual needs.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Please contact X-CAGO for more information at sales@x-cago.com
HISTORIC DIGITISATION CASE STUDIES
SERVICES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN
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SUPERSET
X-CAGO currently processes more than 5,000 newspaper and magazine titles from PDF input files into one or more XML/JSON output formats.
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WEB CRAWLING
This is the conversion of articles on web pages into a consistent XML/JSON output format. This is achieved through the use of a high-precision web crawler.
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HISTORIC DIGITISATION
This involves the digitsation of hard copy archival content for media companies / publishers.
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ARCHIVE EXPRESS
Archive ExPress successfully captures, stores, researches, publishes, distributes and syndicates content from both print media (newspapers, magazines, books, catalogues, etc.) and digital media.
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CONTENT TRANSLATIONS
X-CAGO can provide fast and reliable automated content translations in no less than 30 languages. New languages are being added regularly.
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