They’re just getting digitized, like everything else. While there’s a real charm to owning a stack of bound paper that you can fold the corners of, underline, and read without staring at a screen, eBooks are far more convenient. Your backpack can hold maybe four or five books, but one e-reader or tablet can hold thousands of titles. Plus, e-readers allow you to search text, share the saucy bits, and read at night without a light.

eBook Conversion Swift ProSys

You can publish your own eBook relatively easily. Any text you find on the web that you’d rather read on your Kindle? Port it over. And, if you’ve got the time, you can turn your favorite antiquated paper book into an eBook too. It’s just going to take a lot of page turning—and scanning.

So whether you’re ready to share the manuscript that’s been sitting in a folder on your desktop for years, or you’d like digitize an old paper copy of Cervantes, here’s our process to creating a digital copy of just about any book.

Scan the book into a PDF file
Convert the PDF using OCR into a document file
Gross restoration: remove headers, footers, page numbers, and bugshit produced when conversion “reads” speckles, debris, foxing, watermarks or penciled notations as characters; restore paragraphs; restore special formatting such as italics or bolded text; remove all formatting artifacts embedded by the PDF and the word processor.
Fine tune and proofread.
Format the fully restored text for either digital or print-on-demand.
Proofread the eBook and/or print-on-demand.

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XML Conversion

XML is vastly used on internet due to its litheness and of its many benefits.
XML conversion service is a path of tagging data which permits the user to generate tags which are relate to the structure of content or document.
Generally the data which converted into XML format are compactable for various formats and interface.
These conversions are normally done by experts, they use advanced tools and state of the art skill to convert files into XML and easily manage the more amount of data for XML conversion.

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EAD Encoding

ead encoding

Standard for electronic encoding of finding aids for archival and manuscript collections
Expressed as an SGML/XML DTD
Supports archival descriptive practices and standards for discovery, exchange and use of data
Single-level at collection level
Multiple level descriptions from collection through file and item levels.

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Digital Archiving – Benefits

digital-archiving-benefits
Digitization contribute to

Conservation of physical resources
Enables effective sharing of information and contributes to knowledge flow
Unlocks information that was previously difficult to access in paper form.
Use of digital surrogates will reduce wear and tear of originals / made legible.
Negate the use of originals
Access to information could be restricted with remote access
Provide customizable user interface for collaborative working environment
Faster support regarding any query & question
Cost saving on paper and time saving in finding information.

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Enhanced eBook Features

Enhanced eBooks go beyond the simple layouts of most ebooks to offer more complex formatting, illustration, and rich media such as video, audio and program-like interactions. As we’ve just seen, updates to the EPUB and Kindle formats — EPUB3 and Kindle KF8 — provide the advanced features needed for enhanced ebooks. A new breed of e-reading devices and apps is emerging to support these new versions.
enhancedebook We’ll take a brief look at some of the more important formats being used today to produce enhanced ebooks in this changing landscape.

• PDF (Portable Document Format)
• Apps
• Fixed layout ebooks
• Web app

And we’ll look at two popular tools for producing enhanced ebooks

• Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
• Apple iBooks Author

These tools and formats are just a small selection of the many options to produce enhanced digital publications. Each of these has solid backing and supporters among the publishing community but this is a field where we’re still some way from having a widely-adopted standard.