The Imperial lab converting paper into digital media starts with simple imaging. Documents are scanned and converted into TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) images which can be viewed, modified, copied, printed, and converted to other image formats.
Simple imaging is useful for life cycle documents and files that need to be archived for legal or business purposes.

THE IMAGING PROCESS

The scanner takes digital 'snapshots' of paper and converts them into bi-tonal image files, normally at 300 dpi, which can be viewed, printed or archived.

Once 'captured', images can also be manipulated in various ways, including conversion to another graphic format (GIF, JPG, BMP, PDF, etc.), unique file-naming for archiving, or run through an OCR application for text translation.

Options include checking for clarity, skewing and other anomalies, manual 'scrubbing' to filter out stray marks and smudges, and erasure of unwanted lines, marks, etc.

SPEED SCANNING

Using a high-speed duplex scanner, thousands of single or double sided pages can be scanned in a matter of hours, using an ADF (Automatic Document Feeder).
Successful ADF feed requires the removal of all staples, and a degree of uniformity in the documents.

Similar to photocopying, any document that is frayed, dirty, torn, contains staples, etc. will jam, requiring manual or flat bed scanning.

OCR OPTIONS

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of translating imaged text files into machine-readable or editable characters.

Over 30 different foreign language options available.

Data entry through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is faster, more accurate and more efficient than keystroke data entry. India has the technology to cost-effectively and efficiently handle hand-held data collection. Save money by outsourcing bulk data entry to India. The information gathered can be formatted as an easily retrievable and usable business document, and stored in electronic form.

We convert hard-copy documents into digital, editable text using rapid, accurate, optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Using state of the art hardware and software, hard copy documents are turned into a format like (ms word, txt, rtf, etc) ready for rapid, organized and simple storage and retrieval.

We convert paper based data into electronic format. Our specialty is text entry, conversion of books, periodicals, research papers into digital form and also into Web pages. We work with handwritten or type or printed text.

We can input:

Books, manual periodicals, research papers etc.
Business cards
Customer lists, warranty registrations
Catalogs