Human-Readable Preservation of Digital Images to Microfilm

Digital preservation: The uncertain future of saving the past

I n recent decades, the core processes of organisations, companies, governments and individuals have become increasingly dependent on digital objects of all kinds—including documents, images, videos, sound files, spreadsheets, datasets (such as patient records), executable programs and integrated combinations thereof. But the pace of technological change and the nature of digital objects make t...

Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books

Full - Text Access to Historical Newspapers Tapas Kanungo and

Newspapers are rich records of U.S. history. Due to the deterioration of older newspapers, the National Endowment for the Humanities is archiving 19th century newspapers on microfilm. Although microfilm is a good preservation method, it provides limited access to researchers and the general public. We are building a system to provide universal access to digital images and full-text content of h...

Automatic Indexing of Newspaper Microfilm Images

This paper describes a proposed document analysis system that aims at automatic indexing of digitized images of old newspaper microfilms. This is done by extracting news headlines from microfilm images. The headlines are then converted to machine readable text by OCR to serve as indices to the respective news articles. A major challenge to us is the poor image quality of the microfilm as most i...

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Online content-searchable databases of music scores, unlike text databases, are extremely rare. The main reasons are the cost of digitization, the inaccessibility of original music scores and manuscripts, and the lack of sophisticated music recognition software. The proposed research seeks to circumvent these difficulties by investigating the feasibility of using existing microfilms for digitiz...