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Digitizing Historical Government Archives

Government archives departments digitize historical documents, maps, and records for preservation and public access. Original documents may be fragile, oversized, or in deteriorating condition.

Workflow

  1. Scan historical documents using appropriate preservation scanning equipment
  2. Use the Image Rotator to correct orientation of scanned pages
  3. Use the Image Cropper to remove scanning margins while preserving document edges
  4. Use the Image Converter to create archival TIFF and access JPEG versions
  5. Convert to searchable PDF using Image to PDF for the digital archive
  6. Upload to the government digital archives with preservation metadata

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