| Free
the printed word from
the books that bind it.™
Moving
knowledge from books to bytes by digitizing
the vast, worldwide repository of knowledge amassed
over the centuries of human history— that’s
how the printed word is freed. It’s
an initiative that will change the way we think, learn,
research, and discover.
The
challenge is daunting, and you only want to
do it once. Every page, picture, word, and
character must be as clear and legible as the day
it was originally published. The content must
be searchable, and the resulting digitized
file must be capable of being delivered in a variety
of media— even those yet to be invented.
Kirtas
can help you achieve these objectives while
increasing your potential return on investment.
Through the development of complete, turnkey
solutions, critical information locked away
in over 500 years of books and other bound documents
can be restored, preserved, reused, reproduced
and shared more efficiently and economically.
| It's not scanning. It's digitization. And it's the Kirtas Digitization Process that sets Kirtas apart from the rest. Learn more by reading the text to the right, and by taking a virtual tour of the Kirtas Service Bureau. |
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Visit
Kirtas at these upcoming events:
- FOSE
Washington, DC
April 1-3, 2008
Washington DC Convention Center
Booth 2742
- London Book Fair
Lundon, UK
April 14-16, 2008
Hollingworth Booth
- Book Expo
Los Angeles, CA
May 30 – June 1, 2008
Los Angeles Convention Center
Booth 4117
- Book Expo Canada
Toronto, ON
June 13-16, 2008
Metro Toronto Convention Center
Ristech Booth
- ALA Annual Conference
Anaheim, CA
June 26-July 2, 2008
Anaheim Convention Center
- IFLA
Quebec
August 10-14, 2008
Quebec City Centre
Ristech Booth
- GI-TEX
Dubai
September, 2008
- Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt
October 15-19, 2008
- IMS Online
London, UK
December 6-9 2008
Digitizing the world’s repository
of knowledge may be one of the most important initiatives
of the new millenium.
 Choose
a format below to learn how.
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Document
scanning is only part of Kirtas’
digitization process...
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Inventory
Control: bar code scanning hardware for
metadata generation and management.
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Digitization:
Kirtas BookScan systems
with their robust user interface simplifies capture,
organization and storage. Innovative hardware
and sotware
delivers superb raw image quality efficiently
and economically virtually error-free, without
disbinding.
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Processing:
Kirtas BookScan Editor™ software
ensures consistent page positioning, outstanding
type integrity while maintaining or
enhancing the quality of photographs and illustrations;
and BookScan Editor PRO™ offers extremely
accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) conversion
in over 177 languages in multiple output formats
including PDF, XML, Word and Text. Additionally
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Media
Delivery: The resulting
digitized content may be delivered in a variety
of media including Web, CD, hard drives, e-book
or for printed on demand.
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