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Government archives departments digitize historical documents, maps, and records for preservation and public access.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
- Scan historical documents using appropriate preservation scanning equipment
- Use the Image Rotator to correct orientation of scanned pages
- Use the Image Cropper to remove scanning margins while preserving document edges
- Use the Image Converter to create archival TIFF and access JPEG versions
- Convert to searchable PDF using Image to PDF for the digital archive
- Upload to the government digital archives with preservation metadata
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