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Increasing resolution may be necessary for difficult to read handwritten documents.

Increasing resolution may be necessary for less standardized fonts. Capturing in color (24-bit RGB) is recommended. The resolution may be adjusted according to the detail to be represented. The resolution may be adjusted according to the detail to be represented.īooks and other text with images (nonrare) Features of the original documents, such as handwritten versus print, their rare nature, or the presence of illustrations, also play a role in adjusting the specifications.īooks and other text without images (nonrare) Higher resolution and bit depth are recommended for documents with smaller typeface. The size of text in original text material is an important factor when determining technical specifications.

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Digitized text not only has to be legible to the human eye but also needs to be recognized and processed by software if searchable text is to be created. Scanned pages of books, newspapers, journals, and other textual documents can be presented as images and/or as searchable text. Text digitization focuses primarily on legibility issues. While digitized photographs remain basically as images, digitized text documents need to be further processed and transformed to make the textual content searchable. The complexity of photographic processes and formats also demands a wider range of specifications and more versatile digitization equipment. However, recommendations for resolution and bit depth vary because of the fundamentally different content, and the amount of detail that needs to be captured is greater for photographic materials. For both source types, the output is in the form of digital images, and masters are saved in the TIFF format. The processes for digitizing textual and photographic materials are similar to a certain extent. Matusiak PhD, in Discover Digital Libraries, 2016 Recommendations for digital capture of text and photographic images

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