HTC Global Services - Content Manufacturing

Content Manufacturing

Digitization

HTC’s Digitization services include conversion of paper documents, microfilms, microfiches, aperture cards and digital images to electronic data. This may be achieved using scanning, optical character recognition (OCR), intelligent character recognition (ICR) and manual data entry, as appropriate. Converted data can be provided in most industry standard formats such as TIFF, Searchable TIFF with highlighting, PDF, Searchable PDF, JPEG, GIF, HTML, PNG, ASCII, comma separated value, fixed format, SGML, XML, or other proprietary tagged formats.

Our state-of-art data conversion facility is capable of converting over 3.5 million pages per month.

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Source Documents

The source materials for digitization are generally obtained from customers in either paper, microform or electronic media. HTC has the capability to create digital content from any source - paper, microfiche, microfilm, aperture cards, and electronic files.

Documents Preparation

The source documents, such as books, newspapers, journals, or forms received are sorted, analyzed and prepared for scanning.

Scanning

HTC provides end-to-end document scanning and imaging services to organizations seeking best-practice document management solutions. We use advanced scanning technology to transform masses of diverse document types into digital files that can be converted, cataloged, searched, labeled, printed, or simply archived.

Our imaging services include:

Large format scanning
Book scanning
Non-destructive scanning
High volume document scanning
Scanning from microfilm and microfiche

HTC uses top-of-the-line, high-speed scanners such as Sunrise, NextScan, Wicks and Wilson to produce high-quality grayscale, bi-tonal or color images based on source and end-user needs.

Image Enhancement

The image enhancement process involves splitting of frames into individual pages, cropping, de-skewing and de-speckling of images. At this stage, quality checking ensures that the content portion from the page image is fully captured.

Optical Character Recognition

HTC utilizes state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools for higher levels of accuracy. HTC uses a combination of third-party products to meet the content structure, layout and accuracy needs for digital access by end users.

Post-OCR Processing

When processing old scripts and ligatures, the accuracy of the OCR output is enhanced by using HTC's proprietary post-OCR processing tool. The tool uses heuristic, proprietary algorithms to enhance accuracy levels.

Indexing & Abstracting

HTC has a long and successful track record in information management. HTC's subject matter experts have provided indexing and abstracting services to leading publishing companies, for a variety of content management projects. HTC's automated indexing, categorization and abstracting tool helps increase productivity and throughput.

Quality Control

HTC adopts a multi-stage quality checking process for comprehensive troubleshooting and improvement of output quality. Using Six Sigma techniques, errors are trapped at early stages of production. HTC's tracking software provides real time feedback on quality to the operators and ensures accuracy levels of over 99.95%.

Deliverables

Deliverables may be any or a combination of the following:

Converted data in preferred formats such as TIFF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, GIF for images, delimited ASCII, XML, SGML, PDF or as per customer requirement
Indexed databases
Extensive search engines