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1. Digitization & ePublishing
February 2014

2. About Us
Books are
OUR Passion
Litent digitizes and electronically publishes your
books to create a value for its lifetime

3. Digitization & ePublication
To organize the information and make it
universally accessible and useful.
ONLINE/ELECTRONICS CONTENT
Billions of web pages
OFFLINE CONTENT
Billions of items still un-indexed

4. Digital Library Initiatives
~15% BOOKS
are in print/copyright/available in
book shops for sale.
~85% BOOKS
are out of print and/or out of
copyright – these books are only
found in libraries
GOAL
Create a comprehensive virtual
card catalogue of all books in
languages, while respecting
publishers’ rights
PUBLIC
DOMAIN
IN
PRINT
~85%
~15%

5. What We Offer
Digitizing
Digitize books at a speed of up-to than
650 pages per hour using indigenously
built sophisticated software/hardware.
OCR
PROOF-READ (e)Publish
Digitize OCR PROOF-READ (e)PUBLISH
Convert the enhanced scanned images
to text at more than 95% accuracy using
relevant software. This process is called
as Optical Character Recognition.
The OCR treated images are now more
than 95% accurate text. For better
accuracy manual proofreading has to be
done comparing the images.
To publish a book, it needs to undergo a
specific type of a structure and an
indentation. This process is known as
typesetting.

6. Our Services Portfolio
Self Publishing &
ePublishing
Digitizing Image Enhancement
Searchable Text Restoration Design Services

7. Digitization Process
Digitization process consists of the following steps. OCR and Conversion is automated, while the rest
of the process needs manual intervention. The percentage manual intervention is mentioned below.
Type-set
Proof-Read
Enhancement
Scanning
90%
75%
55%
35%

8. Process Flow
XML
Metafile
Creation
using
Dublin Core
Std.
Server
Storage
Scanning
Status
Scanned
images
in TIFF
format
Upload
Yes
No
Reject
Book
Scan
Batch
cropping
and
cleaning
OCR
Conversion to
DOC, PDF,
DJVU , ePub

9. Benefits of ePublishing
Wider
Reach
Convenience Go Green
Ageless Searchable PortablePrint Size
Cost
Effective

10. SCANNING TYPES
o 3 Ring
o Case
o Thermal
o Plastic Comb
o Spiral-O
o Spiral
o Saddle Stitching
o Stabled
o Tape
o Twin Loop
o Velo
o Positives
o Slides
o Negatives
– 35 mm
– Medium Format
– 126
– 127
– 110
o Post Cards
o Stamps
o Newspaper
o Fliers
o Brochures
o Product Cards
o Business Cards
o B/W Documents
o ID Cards
o Legal Papers
o Stamp Papers
o Handwritten Documents
Photo Scanning Document ScanningBook Scanning

11. IMAGE FORMAT
OUTPUT FORMAT
JPEG, TIF, BMP, GIF
DOCUMENT FORMAT
DOC, PDF, DJVU
MATHEMATICAL FORMAT
XLS, XLSX, XML

12. ePublishing more than 1000
CLIENT
An NGO which is into publishing of
education material for underprivileged
•OVERVIEW
A library (estb. in 1909) by Britishers having a
range of subjects Anthropology, Archaeology,
History, Epigraphy, Culture, traditions, art and
Architecture, folklore ethnology, literature and
allied subjects that covers a wide spectrum of
the written world – is a client of us.
Requirement
The client wanted to epublish about 250
books for children .
We were involved in digitizing the content
and the books in short span of time . After the
digitization the books were (e)published and
present on wide array of platforms

13. Digitizing a book published in 1909
Quarterly Journals
Digitizing
CLIENT
The Mythic Society
OVERVIEW
A library by Britishers having a range of
subjects Anthropology, Archaeology, History,
Epigraphy, Culture, traditions, art and
Architecture, folklore ethnology, literature and
allied subjects that covers a wide spectrum of
the written world.
WEBSITE
www.mythicsociety.org

14. NEWSPAPER DIGITIZATION
Newspaper Clippings
Digital Library
CLIENT
Rashtrotthana Adhyayana Vedi
OVERVIEW
A library which has a history of producing
great IAS and IPS officers. We helped them
digitize the newspapers with around 20
categories and more than 100
subcategories.
WEBSITE
www.rashtrotthana.org

15. MAHABHARATAM
Old Out of Print Books
Reprinting
CLIENT
Vaagartha Printers
OVERVIEW
There are as many as 85% books that are
out of print. Reprinting them is a challenge.
This challenge was one such that included
manual cleaning of each and every page.
WEBSITE
NA

16. SLIDE SCANNING
For a presentation
Colour Slides
CLIENT
Abhinav, Architect
OVERVIEW
An individual who wanted to convert all his
slides to colour images as part of a
powerpoint presentation that he wanted to
showcase his college projects.
WEBSITE
None

17. PHOTO RESTORATION
Personal Use
Postcard Photos
CLIENT
Muthu, Businessman, US
OVERVIEW
Old and worn out family photos restored
through digitization.
WEBSITE
None

18. Large Middle East Publisher
A Dubai company required 164 books to be digitized.
WEBSITE
Confidential
OVERVIEW
Books digitized in Book Scanner, with a
speed upto 800 pages per hour.
CLIENT
Large shipping company

19. OUR CONTACT DETAILS
14 Second Floor
HB Samaja Link Road
Gandhi Bazaar
Bangalore 560004
www.litent.com
digitization@litent.com
+91 994 513-3966
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20. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME