Digitizing Legacy Documents: A Knowledge-Base Preservation Project

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.