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We offer fast, accurate and competitive Data Capturing services, typically at a lower cost than doing it in-house, featuring single or double pass data entry.

• Surveys and questionnaires
• Application forms, registration forms.
• Library Cards
• Finding Aids
• Survey Forms
• Handwritten Registers
• Microfiches
• Scanned PDF
• Scanned Images (TIFF, JPEG etc.,)

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There are many reasons that eReaders and eBooks are changing the publishing landscape. Just as an iPod makes it possible to tote an impossibly large music collection in your shirt pocket, eReaders allow you to carry an entire library of books in a handbag.

ePub has been widely adopted as the format for digital books (eBooks) – including Apple’s iBooks, Sony’s Reader, and the Kobo – and the ePub 3 specifications significantly increase the ePub format’s capabilities to support a wider range of publication requirements.

Features of the EPUB 3 Format

• Video. Video can now be embedded in eBooks.
• Audio. Audio passages can also be embedded in eBooks, and ePub 3 is better at integrating the current DAISY accessibility standards, making eReaders more useful to visually impaired readers.
• Interactivity. An interactive ePublication can act more like an app than a document, and can include features like pop-ups and asides activated by clicking on words in the text.
• Global language support, including vertical writing and writing from left-to-right and right-to-left.
• Multi-column layout. A feature that will greatly enhance publications like cookbooks (see the post on Mastering the Art of French Cooking.)
• Hyphenation. To help page formatting, particularly in justified text, this helps avoid very tight or very loose lines of text.
• Embedded fonts. This opens up a world of possibilities for fonts you can use in your eBook.
• Enhanced metadata. Metadata (i.e. “data about data”) in an eBook includes things such as your ISBN number, book title, author name, publisher, and publication date. Enhanced metadata can include information like author bios, book excerpts, and media reviews — the kind of information that might influence someone’s decision to buy your book.
• Improved accessibility. This includes enhanced navigation within the eBook, improving the reader’s ability to jump to specific chapters, pages, and passages.
• Support for MathML, a mathematic specification that provides greater opportunities for textbook publishers to convert and publish texts as eBooks.

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This technology converts all printed documents into searchable digital files that can be easily stored on DVD, hard drives and network servers. OCR technology makes it possible to find a topic, word or sentence located within multiple documents in a matter of moments.

Converting documents to searchable digital files eliminates the need for traditional filing and long term storage of deteriorating paper records. The ability to generate multiple digital copies for on and off site storage is also a major benefit thereby averting total loss through theft, fire or flood. Significant space saving is also achieved in the digital conversion process.

Many different types of documents can be scanned with OCR including standard printed material, typed documents, maps, newspaper clippings, plans and illustrations with text.

In summary document scanning with OCR is a relatively inexpensive process that has significant advantages over storing and searching for deteriorating paper files.

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In today’s competitive business world the need for organisations to attain the fastest access to accurate, useable data is paramount. To allow correct decisions to be made to meet business deadlines data needs to be made available at the push of a button.

The data captured from many types of formats, forms and media need to be transformed into easily readable electronic data and integrated into any business system, which will help perform in a much more cost effective and efficient manner.

The Benefits:

The benefits of data capture differ for each client. In many cases these include:

• Improved business focus
• Redirect resources towards activities which have the greater return
• Improved capability and productivity
• Faster access to information
• Reduction and control of operating costs
• Access to leading edge processes and technology

Our expertise includes: XML conversion (TEI, DT Book, NIMAS, NLM, PubMed & DocBook), Metadata, EAD, MODS/ALTO, METS, Marc XML, XHTML, eBooks, OCR, Indexing, Proofread, Data capture & Newspaper clippings

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Document Management allows you to easily store, index, secure and share your documents electronically

Benefits of Document Management Solutions:

• Increased cash flow
• Reduced costs
• Improved customer service
• Faster sales process
• Mobile access to your information
• Improved organization