Large Scale Conversion of Book Backlists for Formatted, Digital Delivery: A Case Study

Large scale OCR conversion of out of print books has become both economically viable and desirable with the advent internet distribution and the general availability of both print on demand (POD) systems and the e-book. This paper describes a new manufacturing and embedded tagging process associated with the conversion of data from physical pages to tagged electronic files. The paper specifically explores the systems workflow integration used in the manufacturing system across three countries and two continents.