Common Business Needs: Libraries and Publishers

Digitization represents the future for the library and the publishing community. ByteManagers offers cost effective methodologies to create, convert and structure text and images into digital formats to support publishing and digital library projects.

We have significant experience delivering end-to-end digital content conversion needs of a broad based constituents ranging from Newspapers, Journals, Book Publishers, Libraries etc.

The core objective of our customers is to enable large amounts of content on the web that is: a) Visually accurate versus the source documents b) Textually accurate to the content in the source documents c) Easily searchable and accessible.

Digital Text/Digital Images

There are presently a multiple number of uses for digitizing text. Some examples of this may be:

Creating an access point to a digital image
Creating subject indexes
Capture full text of the document

ByteManagers focuses on coding formats such as SGML, HTML, XML, XPAT, EAD and TEI Lite. ByteManagers will also work to create customizable workflow for special proprietary coding formats. This will ensure structure to the content.

Digital Images represent a special challenge to the conversion process. These images may be in varying degrees of quality. Depending on age or possibly environmental conditions, some images may require special attention. ByteManagers has created digital images from a variety of input materials. These materials could be index cards, paper documents (various sizes and conditions), photos, drawings, slides, microfilm and microfiche.

Whether the project involves text or images, ByteManagers uses a step-by-step consultative approach to determine the best methodology for delivering a high quality end product. ByteManagers will work closely with the client to determine special requirements and setting a timetable for the project.

ByteManagers' Common Bundled Solutions:

ByteManagers offers end-to-end, large-scale data conversion services to publishers, academic institutions, content aggregators, newspapers and corporate organizations to address their need for electronically available content and historical archives.

We provide these services- data conversion and data enablement-through the application of sophisticated workflow technology and large teams of highly trained data professionals.

Data Conversion involves the conversion of information from one medium to another. ByteManagers can convert and extract information from almost any medium and enable it to any customer-required medium and format.

Typically, customer Data Conversion needs fall into any of the following categories:

Paper to scanned images
Microfilm to scanned images
Scanned images to text and graphics conversion
Paper to electronic text conversion
Migration from one format to another
Legacy database migration

Data Enablement involves rendering the information produced into a customer-desired format, including:

SGML/XML/SHTML coded data
Images with searchable text
PDFs with searchable text
Index Databases

ByteManagers has successfully leveraged these services to provide solutions to customers with a broad range of needs, such as:

Scientific Journals
Electronic Conversion of Books for on-line enablement
eBooks
Digitization of Newspapers, Magazines and other Media Sources
Legal Documents and Journals
Financial Services Content Extraction

These services are backed by our large scalable infrastructure, quality commitment and singular focus on customer satisfaction.

Project management teams closely coordinate and integrate with the customers to ensure that we meet and exceed the customers project requirements.

Document Management

ByteManagers' experts will also establish dependable, customized document management solution, based on any of its broad range of services including:

Data extraction and indexing
XML/SGML conversion
OCR and PDF conversion
Database integration (Access, MSSQL, Oracle, etc.)
Electronic Document Discovery (EDD)
Forms Processing

Service Bureau-Business Process Outsourcing

ByteManagers delivers projects requiring on-going turn around of 2 to 24 hours. Our ability to combine our Document Management capabilities with data analysis and enablement allows you to out-source complete, end-to-end processes to ByteManagers.

Our Service Bureau BPO services have been extensively proven to be reliable and cost-effective for scores of our clients.

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Data Cleansing and Content Enhancement
Litigation Support Services

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