Historic and legacy archives of newspapers, magazines, journals and catalogs can be invaluable source of information. But, unfortunately these are locked away in newsprint, microfilm or microfiche formats – out of reach of potential users worldwide and sometimes even internal staff of publications who depend on these archives for editorial work. More critically, there is a threat of loosing such precious archives to the vagaries of nature.

Pressmart offers full-service archive digitization to publications taking archives stored in physical formats of newsprint, microfilm or microfiche into multiple digital formats like scanned images, searchable PDF files, XML files, browser-based digital replicas, etc.

Using sophisticated processes and patent-pending technology, Pressmart scans, enhances the image quality, disintegrates the publication pages into articles, ads and pictures and extracts key meta-data giving advanced search capabilities to the end users. A proprietary OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology converts the printed text into digital format and indexed to produce quick search results based on every keyword available in the archives. An enhanced high resolution page image is stored for future reproduction.

Pressmart has over 400 years of archive digitization experience working with varied formats and quality of source content and has delivered multiple types of output formats to publications.

Pressmart also assists publications to monetize its historic content through its relationships with content repurposing services.

If you have historic content in any physical format and are interested in having them archived, please contact a Pressmart consultant for complimentary advise on an archiving strategy. Please send us an email to info@pressmart.net

Or, access the digital edition demos at: http://www.pressmart.net/demo