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Digitization and Archiving

www.daralraqmana.com

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DAR Al-raqmana Vision Digitization is not a new concept. Yet, it doesn’t reach its potentials. Our goal is to help in preserving and enriching the significant content, i.e. Heritage Maps, Books,

Rare manuscripts, Family history, Newspaper, Old Purchase orders and forms, Old Contracts…etc Our Endeavor to look after content! We’ll be creating a state-of-art and integrated digitization

facility along side a fine digital repository platform with Browsing, Searching, reading and long-term preservation capabilities.

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DAR Al-raqmana Perspective of Digitization

Digitization is not equal to Scanning! Scanning is pivotal, but it’s only a starting phase. Our target is to ;

Save the original documents Enrich the digital content with metadata and content classification and analysis Create one-stop-platform to make the digital content at the user’s fingertip

We provide full stack of services aims at diminishing the access to the original document

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DAR Al-raqmana Services Long Term Preservation

Model the documents into Self-Contained package, OAIS Standard compliant w Maintain the Original archival packages and Deployment packages All backup, security and data integrity measures.

Digitization workflow Orchestrate the production. Manages the operators, machines, servers, integration with other platforms, editing ,

reviewing and reporting High quality imaging

Select the suitable scanners and scanning method to achieve 100% digital replica Enrich document descriptive metadata. Copyright evaluation engine:

Our copyright engine takes care of the original copyrights, publishing date, location-based and user level access.

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DAR Al-raqmana Services (Cont.) Arabic Text Recognition

As well as, Latin text recognition; we are expert in handling the Arabic Text. Our calibers can analyze the text fonts and provide machine readable libraries, that elevate the OCRing recognition to produce more than 99% guaranteed quality for modern text.

One-Stop platform Browse, Search, Download, Print, Comment, Share and Personalize.

Responsive design, for web-based or mobile browsing. High quality Search

Exact and Morphological search (stem or root based) for both Arabic and Latin text. Content Search; the End user will be capable of searching the documents’ content,

populating search snippets and highlight. All-In-One viewer

Out Image-on-text viewer will group all mentioned above functionalities in one location.

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Collection Care and imaging We Handle the content with maximum care Assess the content based on Color set, paper size, paper quality andMany other factors Select the best approach to take the image

Scanners Cameras Negatives readers

Choose the most appropriate DPI, resolution, color profile, lightingsoftware and APIs to maintain the original files and create a digital replica and web oriented copy as well

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Proper Ocring for High quality Search Dar Al-raqmana developed a new machine readable Font library to reach a highest level

of OCR accuracy The output of OCR process will be fed to a powerful Arabic-oriented search engine We handle the Stem of the word to get more than Exact result; e.g.

search with خطابةand you’ll get hits like للخطابة , , بالخطاب الخطابة

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System Architecture We developed a customized and service oriented architecture. That fulfill all the list of

features (mentioned previously)

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Quality Assurance We do believe that the shortest way to the user satisfaction is the Quality Quality assurance is a key process in our workflow We incorporate 2 levels of QA;

Page level: an operator will review each and every page and make sure it meets certain standards Item level: Ensure the whole quality of the images with the ocr output meets certain standards

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Building the Digitization Facility We do;

Supply the equipment to existed digitization center Build it from scratch, with the top notch Scanners, Digital Cameras, PCs, Calibrated Monitors,

Software

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Outsourcing/Consultation Solutions We have a quite large bank of experts, in every field of

of our Digitization Services. We are happy to supply a high skilled and well trained staff, to

Institutions that plan to build digitization environment We do provide a consultation and devising the suitable

Digitization solutions

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Training Offer training in the latest digitization techniques and standards. Conduct training in specific areas; the measures of quality assurance, the techniques

of image processing and optical character recognition (OCR). Provide training in building state-of-art digital repository

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Digitization Workflow

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