The National Health Service (NHS), the UK's publicly funded healthcare system, aims to become paperless by 2018. The idea of digitization was put forward by the Secretary of State for Health Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt in January 2013, with the intention to improve services...
Trends in the Digital Publishing Industry
With the rising popularity of electronic reading, many authors and publishers are striving to provide users a quality e-book experience, while managing costs and adhering to standards. When it comes to electronic publications, quality assurance is undoubtedly the most...
Chippewa Falls District Sets Up Document Management System for HR
Every human resource department faces the difficulties of managing mountains of paper documents. Handling HR documents involve huge challenge such as addressing unauthorized access, risk of losing files, high administrative and paper storage costs, and much more....
AUB Teams Up with US Libraries to Digitize Historical Arabic Collections
With the development of new technologies, libraries the world over are moving away from traditional systems into digital mode to better serve the needs of library administrators and users. Factors such as increased operational costs, decline in acquisition of library...
Advantages of Conversions to Excel Format
Excel, the spreadsheet component of the Microsoft Office Package, has wide applications in business. If you need to analyze and interpret complex numerical data presented in Word, PDF or any other file format, Excel conversion is the solution. Businesses use Excel...
How to Convert/Edit a PDF File
Let us start from the very basic question on PDF, "What is PDF?" PDF or Portable Document Format is one of the popular eBook formats, introduced by Adobe Systems in 1991. The company released it as an open standard format in 2008, making it free for developers to work...
Digitizing Civil War Letters
Civil war letters provide an unparalleled connection to the past and need to be preserved in the best way possible. Letters written by patriots during civil wars are priceless resources for future generations. These letters may contain individual stories related to...
Putting Canadian History Online
Today, digital technology has advanced to such an extent that we can have access to information and data from even decades ago. Historical documents and monuments that are digitally preserved can educate future generations on the history and heritage of a specific...
Digitization Project on in the City of Evanston
Now we are living in a world where the impact of increased digitization is reaching every nook and corner. The digitization of documents has increased the possibility of transferring and accessing documents across electronic devices. Cisco predicts that by 2015, the...
Webb County Towards Digital Preservation of Court Records
Recently, it was reported that the Supreme Court of Texas had mandated the electronic filing of all civil cases in counties. The rule is applicable to all non-juvenile civil cases including family and probate cases in district courts, statutory county courts,...