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DIGITISATION Books

Piql is the best choice for restoring, digitising and safeguard- ing your irreplaceable data. As a specialist provider of book digitisation, Piql can offer a complete solution ensuring high resolution capture, enduring long-term storage and guaran- teed accessibility.

BENEFITS

• Increased accessibility of your book collection

• Safeguarding our written heritage

• Enhanced search and retrieval

THE CHALLENGE

Books hold stories and information critical to our heritage. In published form, they become vulnerable to natural elements and decay over time. Many older books and its contents are now at risk of being lost forever if they are not dig- itally preserved. With the ever-increasing demand for e-books and mass digitisation projects by well-known libraries, books that are not digitally available are now almost doomed to stay on a shelf. Digitisation offers significant benefits for book collections, including increasing access, longevity and value. However, incorrect handling of older books when scanning, can leave permanent damage.

• Restoration of books in poor condition

• Highly accessible and securely stored on piqlFilm, preventing loss in the event of any disaster • Digitised content can be repurposed and monetized for new channels

USECASE

A body established by the Government of India, with a core purpose to produce and encourage production of good literature, wanted to unlock the digital potential of its books. The primary objectives are preservation, improved accessibility (for scholars, researches, academics) and enhanced searchability of con- tent. The organisation is in possession of some very old, fragile and deteriorating books, which can only live on through digital preservation.

We set out to digitise books, design an innovative e-commerce platform and a mobile app for extending it to a broader audience.

Through our leading restoration and digitisation services, the collection was first converted to digital publica- tions. These eBooks could be translated to multiple languages and are compatible with a range of devices. Starting with an interactive table of contents, features included chapter previews, text highlighting, annotation & page flipping. Metadata was attached post OCR to make books fully searchable. The customised document management system allowed our client to maintain a digital archive as well as a commercial eStore. The digitised books could also be secured on piqlFilm for long-term preservation.