1. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Dr. Frank Jacobi, Midvox GmbH, Berlin Digitisation of printed books for marketing and flexible information stocks

2. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Dr. Frank Jacobi, Midvox GmbH, Berlin Digitisation of printed books in transition period (from paper to digital)

3. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Sources for digital book applications Total of published books Available only printed on paper Available in electronic formats Available in transformable electronic formats Available in ePub

4. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Tomorrow ? Tomorrow (or after tomorrow): unique digital sources for 1.-printed books 2.-e-books and all derivatives 3.-digital marketing applications

5. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 But today ? Waiting for tomorrow ? or we have to make available the huge potential of printed books for digital products and marketing applications for printed books by Scanning and photographing

6. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 But how ? 1.Technologies, business models, financing, legal aspects etc. 2.But most important - Standards Standards to make the scanned books from different sources usable in many different applications, to bring them together in digital networks and warehouses

7. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Standards and Technologie

8. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Standard for scanned books - Definition of the standard level (between digitisation and application) - Resolution (300 – 600 dpi) - file formats - colour or b/w - sizes - right/left page - compressions - folder and file systematics - OCR-processing - segmentation - search and highlight support - metadata - etc.

9. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Standard for scanned books - Definition of the standard level (between digitisation and application) - Resolution (300 – 600 dpi) - file formats - colour or b/w - sizes - right/left page - compressions - folder and file systematics - OCR-processing - segmentation - search and highlight support - metadata - etc.

10. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Standard for scanned books Segmentation provides 1.orientation/navigation in the book (page numbers, chapters etc.) 2.chance to evaluate the weight of the search word in the book – e.g.ranking in ABC Advanced Book Catalog based on ABC- Standard

11. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Standard for scanned books Segmentation by ABC-Standard – describing part of a book -Title page -Table of content -Preword -Glossary -Information on author -Impressum page

12. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Standard for scanned books Ranking of result lists based on ABC-Standard Value (example) Search word Value -Title page100 1 x100 -Table of content 60 5 x300 -Blurb 40 0 x 0 -Preword 30 1 x 30 -Glossary 15 0 x 0 -Information on author 10 0 x 0 Total ranking value430

13. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books 1.Our focus on titles with copy rights (Google focuses on free titles) 2.Scroll scanning and page feed scanning (Midvox more page feed scanning) 3.Scroll or flat bad scanning for valueable books and for difficult book parts 4.Page feed scanning for still available books 5.Photographing for haptic impressions of the book (3D) 6.Scanning of different views of book cover or jacket

14. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 1(10) - Book registration

15. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 2(10) - Photographing(1) - haptic impression of the book by „3D“ - picture

16. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 3(10) – Flat bad scanning of all cover sides

17. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 4(10) – Scroll scanning

18. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 5(10) – Cutting the book

19. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 6(10) – Page feed scanning

20. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 7(10) – Permanent checks - automatically and visually for improvement of the production process - all pages scanned - sharpness - colourfastness - scan direction - etc.

21. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 8(10) – Quality improvement Improvement of the scanned pictures after completion of the scanning process

22. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 9(10) – Processing - storage formats - application formats, e.g. ABC-Standard in xml/html

23. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Step 10(10) – Storage 1. master storage – basic working copy 2. application storages – active in applications 3. backup copies – only for security reasons

24. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Midvox-Technology for digitisation of printed books Results, August 2008 119.800 German titles partially or fully digitised from more than1300 publishers applications for online shops, local bookshops and publishing houses

25. International Conference, Russia, 02. September, 2008 Second part Applications of ABC Advanced Book Catalog Roman Jacobi Managing Director of Midvox GmbH / Germany