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Published Books & Thesis
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Published Books & Thesis

TownsWeb Archiving’s digitisation technicians have a wealth of experience in book scanning for bound publications, like published books and theses, and can digitise to PDF, turning your books to digital.

These items are often too valuable to be unbound for scanning conversion, so our specialised scanning equipment captures the entire publication page and sophisticated software provides curvature correction on all pages. Choosing to digitise reduces overall storage expenses and provides fast access to your documents through keyword searching.

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Digitisation Frequently Asked Questions

We use bespoke book cradles, high-resolution flatbed scanners and a range of high-resolution cameras, offering non-contact capture of your published books and thesis. Our equipment can capture single page or double-page spreads creating output formats in TIFF, JPEG (JPEG2000), PDF (PDFA) or any other industry-standard image format you may require. We can also create further surrogate files, such as OCR’d multi-page PDFs, MS Word and eBooks.

All files are captured by our highly trained digitisation technicians using overhead, daylight balanced, non-heat producing lighting, before undergoing a formal quality assurance checking procedure. The final step in the process is the delivery of your electronic files by hard drive.

As standard, TWA survey all material prior to any digitisation project being carried out to ensure that it can withstand the scanning process. If there is evidence of fragility, brittleness, and/or mould, or any other signs of damage, such as pages being stuck together, then recommendations will be made for how to repair and stabilise the content appropriately.

There are many things that need to be taken into consideration when costing your digitisation project, such as:

  • Fragility
  • The scale of the collection
  • Whether items are contained in sleeves
  • Whether photographs need to be cleaned

Consequently, it’s impossible to give a definitive answer as to cost, but you can get a rough estimate using our digitisation quote calculator below.

Binding can cause a challenge for any bound book, causing curvature along the gutter between the pages, distorting scans and casting shadows. The thicker the volume the bigger the issue, impacting on any plans you might have to carry out Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the future.

Calculate the cost of digitising your bound volume collections

Simply input your specifications into the FREE digitisation quote calculator below, to get an estimate of how much your project might cost. The prices quoted are indicative for your material quantity and type but are subject to any additional costs such as file naming, folder naming and any post-processing requirements you may have.

If you don’t see your specific material listed it might be that your content is more suited to an informal chat.

Bound Volume Digitisation Quote Calculator

Important Note: We charge a standard £500 project set-up and management fee in addition to the cost of digitisation.

Capture the data within your Published Books & Thesis

Digitisation places your published books & thesis in the perfect format to capture the valuable data contained within them, offering great potential for system integration and online access and discovery.

Capture the data within your collection with optical character recognition, identifying typed text within images and converting this to searchable metadata through a process of scanning, using the latest specialist software. We can also carry out any preprocessing measures necessary to get the very best results, outputting to any format you may require.

Learn more about Optical Character Recognition

Publish your Published Books & Thesis online

PastView is the perfect platform for publishing your published books & thesis ​online, offering great potential for access and discovery. Manage and publish your collection with:

Wondering where to get started?

Head over to our digitisation Getting Started guide for everything you need to know before taking that first step to digitisation success!

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