Digitising Public Records for Open Government Initiatives
Government agencies digitise paper records to make them publicly accessible through open-data portals. This involves scanning, OCR processing, format conversion, and metadata tagging for searchability.
Workflow
- Scan paper records as high-resolution TIFF images
- Use the Image Converter to create web-friendly JPEG versions for the portal
- Use the PDF Converter to create searchable PDF/A versions for archival
- Use the Image Compressor to reduce file sizes for faster public downloads
- Use the Text Extractor to pull key data fields for the metadata catalogue
- Upload the digitised records to the open-data portal with proper metadata tags
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