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Online Computer Library Center
mindful musings All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
-Thomas Carlyle
digitization 
BookShift
means the shift of data from analog forms to digital, but also includes
technology to scan, display, re-print, re-purpose and otherwise control
the information stored in books. The companies that provide these tools
and services manage various components of the process. Bookshift intends
to provide a forum where these products and services can be found and
understood. Here are just a few companies offering equipment and services
applicable to digitization.
Digitizing Equipment, software, and services
4digitalbooks-automated book digitization equipment
Abbyy-Optical Character Recognition software and services
AmCad-imaging services
Atiz-automated book digitization equipment
Bookeye-planetary books scanning equipment
HF Group-book digitization services
Internet Archive-books digitization services, open digital library
Kirtas Technologies-automated book digitization equipment and software, digitization services
Zeutschel-book digitization equipment and software
