Digitizing Legacy Documents: A Knowledge-Base Preservation Project
Elizabeth Anderson, Robert Atkinson, Cynthia Crego, Jean Slisz and, Sara Tompson

TL;DR
This paper presents a practical and affordable method for digitizing legacy paper documents to make them searchable and accessible electronically, using proprietary tools and commercial hardware.
Contribution
It introduces a straightforward process for scanning, cataloging, and archiving legacy documents that is easy to implement and cost-effective.
Findings
Developed a process for digitizing legacy documents
Enabled electronic searchability of paper archives
Demonstrated affordability and ease of implementation
Abstract
This paper addresses the issue of making legacy information (that material held in paper format only) electronically searchable and retrievable. We used proprietary software and commercial hardware to create a process for scanning, cataloging, archiving and electronically disseminating full-text documents. This process is relatively easy to implement and reasonably affordable.
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Taxonomy
TopicsDigital Humanities and Scholarship · Library Science and Information Systems · Digital and Traditional Archives Management
