One of the National Library's first projects started in 1998. The library's Center for Preservation and Digitization wanted to digitize back copies of the Scandinavian newspapers Tiden".
The Center's goals are to develop OCR conversion, to digitize much larger collections and integrate a glossary. For i2S, the main challenge was how to OCR the parts of the texts containing Gothic characters (Fraktur).
Today, the Preservation and Digitization Center employs 8 operators and uses:
"We have fragile collections and the i2S scanners are perfectly suited for the digitization of this type of work"
Mailis Bremer – Laamanen, Director of the Center for Preservation and Digitization
