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Digitization & ePublishing February 2014

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We help you scan to PDF, digitize, ePublish, restore, or recreate your priceless but perishable materials into safe, and always available – eFormats.

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Digitization & ePublishingFebruary 2014

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About Us

Books are

OUR Passion

Litent digitizes and electronically publishes your books to create a value for its lifetime

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Digitization & ePublication

To organize the information and make it universally accessible and useful.

ONLINE/ELECTRONICS CONTENTBillions of web pages

OFFLINE CONTENTBillions of items still un-indexed

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Digital Library Initiatives

~15% BOOKSare in print/copyright/available in book shops for sale.

~85% BOOKSare out of print and/or out of copyright – these books are only found in libraries

GOALCreate a comprehensive virtual card catalogue of all books in languages, while respecting publishers’ rights

PUBLICDOMAIN

IN

PRINT

~85%

~15%

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What We Offer

Digitizing

Digitize books at a speed of up-to than 650 pages per hour using indigenously built sophisticated software/hardware.

OCR

PROOF-READ (e)Publish

Digitize OCR PROOF-READ (e)PUBLISH

Convert the enhanced scanned images to text at more than 95% accuracy using relevant software. This process is called as Optical Character Recognition.

The OCR treated images are now more than 95% accurate text. For better accuracy manual proofreading has to be done comparing the images.

To publish a book, it needs to undergo a specific type of a structure and an indentation. This process is known as typesetting.

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Our Services Portfolio

Self Publishing & ePublishing

Digitizing Image Enhancement

Searchable Text Restoration Design Services

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Digitization ProcessDigitization process consists of the following steps. OCR and Conversion is automated, while the rest of the process needs manual intervention. The percentage manual intervention is mentioned below.

Type-set

Proof-Read

Enhancement

Scanning

90%

75%

55%

35%

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Process Flow

XML Metafile Creation

usingDublin

Core Std.

Server Storag

e

Scanning Status

Scanned

images in TIFF format

Upload

Yes

No

Reject Book

Scan

Batch cropping and

cleaning

OCRConversion toDOC, PDF,

DJVU , ePub

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Benefits of ePublishing

Wider Reach

Convenience

Go Green

Ageless Searchable PortablePrint Size

Cost Effective

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SCANNING TYPES

o 3 Ring

o Case

o Thermal

o Plastic Comb

o Spiral-O

o Spiral

o Saddle Stitching

o Stabled

o Tape

o Twin Loop

o Velo

o Positives

o Slides

o Negatives

– 35 mm

– Medium Format

– 126

– 127

– 110

o Post Cards

o Stamps

o Newspaper

o Fliers

o Brochures

o Product Cards

o Business Cards

o B/W Documents

o ID Cards

o Legal Papers

o Stamp Papers

o Handwritten Documents

Photo Scanning Document ScanningBook Scanning

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IMAGE FORMAT

OUTPUT FORMAT

JPEG, TIF, BMP, GIF

DOCUMENT FORMAT

DOC, PDF, DJVU

MATHEMATICAL FORMAT

XLS, XLSX, XML

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ePublishing more than 1000

CLIENT An NGO which is into publishing of education material for underprivileged

•OVERVIEWA library (estb. in 1909) by Britishers having a range of subjects Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Epigraphy, Culture, traditions, art and Architecture, folklore ethnology, literature and allied subjects that covers a wide spectrum of the written world – is a client of us.

Requirement The client wanted to epublish about 250 books for children . We were involved in digitizing the content and the books in short span of time . After the digitization the books were (e)published and present on wide array of platforms

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Digitizing a book published in 1909

Quarterly Journals

Digitizing

CLIENTThe Mythic Society

OVERVIEWA library by Britishers having a range of subjects Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Epigraphy, Culture, traditions, art and Architecture, folklore ethnology, literature and allied subjects that covers a wide spectrum of the written world.

WEBSITE www.mythicsociety.org

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NEWSPAPER DIGITIZATION

Newspaper Clippings

Digital Library

CLIENTRashtrotthana Adhyayana Vedi

OVERVIEWA library which has a history of producing great IAS and IPS officers. We helped them digitize the newspapers with around 20 categories and more than 100 subcategories.

WEBSITE www.rashtrotthana.org

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MAHABHARATAM

Old Out of Print Books

Reprinting

CLIENTVaagartha Printers

OVERVIEWThere are as many as 85% books that are out of print. Reprinting them is a challenge. This challenge was one such that included manual cleaning of each and every page.

WEBSITE NA

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SLIDE SCANNING

For a presentation

Colour Slides

CLIENTAbhinav, Architect

OVERVIEWAn individual who wanted to convert all his slides to colour images as part of a powerpoint presentation that he wanted to showcase his college projects.

WEBSITE None

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PHOTO RESTORATION

Personal Use

Postcard Photos

CLIENTMuthu, Businessman, US

OVERVIEWOld and worn out family photos restored through digitization.

WEBSITE None

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Large Middle East PublisherA Dubai company required 164 books to be digitized.

WEBSITE Confidential

OVERVIEWBooks digitized in Book Scanner, with a speed upto 800 pages per hour.

CLIENTLarge shipping company

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OUR CONTACT DETAILS

14 Second Floor

HB Samaja Link Road

Gandhi Bazaar

Bangalore 560004

www.litent.com

[email protected]

+91 994 513-3966

www.facebook.com/scan2pdf

@litent

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THANKS FOR YOUR TIME