Vendor candidates
- HTC Inc.
- Recommended by HLSL.
- Films are sent to India.
- Creekside Digital (located in Glen Arm, MD)
- Backstage Library Works
Characteristics of sample films
- Includes handwriting
- Includes printed text
- Includes multiple titles
- Includes splices
Imaging Services' orders for microform digitization services will have the following characteristics:
- Digitization of entire reels or entire fiche-sheets.
Specifications
image format |
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TIFF / 8-bit grayscale / uncompressed / embedded sGray ICC profile |
OCR format |
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ALTO, UTF-8 encoded |
directory structure and file naming |
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image files: ocr files: directories: Example:
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Test film for microform scanning vendors
- Camera master (1N), 35mm, single reel
- Reduction ratio: 12
- Multiple sonic splices
- 1st and 2nd documents include handwritten and printed text
- 3rd document: published item filmed 2-up
- 4th document: index cards arranged in horizontal pairs
- Vendor should deliver one image file (2 index card images) for each horizontal pair
Includes 4 works to be named and arranged as follows, using JOB NUMBER or document name and 4 digit sequential number:
test film: file system organization and structure ├── 05_2907_01 │ ├── 05_2907_01_0001.tif │ ├── 05_2907_01_0002.tif │ ├── 05_2907_01_0003.tif │ ├── 05_2907_01_0004.tif │ ├── 05_2907_01_0005.tif │ ├── [...] │ └── 05_2907_01_9999.tif ├── 05_2907_02 │ ├── 05_2907_02_0001.tif │ ├── 05_2907_02_0002.tif │ ├── 05_2907_02_0003.tif │ ├── 05_2907_02_0004.tif │ ├── 05_2907_02_0005.tif │ ├── [...] │ └── 05_2907_02_0025.tif ├── 82_4897 │ ├── 82_4897_0001.tif │ ├── 82_4897_0002.tif │ ├── 82_4897_0003.tif │ ├── 82_4897_0004.tif │ ├── 82_4897_0005.tif │ ├── [...] │ └── 82_4897_0025.tif └── index_cards ├── index_cards_0001.tif ├── index_cards_0002.tif ├── index_cards_0003.tif ├── index_cards_0004.tif ├── index_cards_0005.tif ├── [...] └── index_cards_0009.tif