McMaster University and Lulu.com
May 26, 2008

DigitalMediaEurope Features Kirtas Europe
January 30, 2008

DigitalMediaEurope, a major daily news service providing pan-European news, analysis and opinion covering digital media in Europe from a tech/business/policy perspective, is bringing Kirtas Europe increasing European attention.

"Kirtas Technologies, a player in quality, high-speed, non-destructive book digitisation, has announced the opening of a European subsidiary to capture and better service the growth potential for book digitisation in Europe," it reported.

"Beginning 1 February, the office will provide systems and service support to resellers, agents and end users providing mass digitisation in the European market."

Read the full article here.

WHAM-TV
January 23, 2008
Broadband connectivity arrives to Victor, the New York State home of Kirtas technologies. Crews have begun installing a 180 mile fiber optic ring—the technology that will provide faster access to the internet.The new access is expected to enhance service at Kirtas. As Kirtas founder and CEO Lotfi Belkhir said in the news piece, "We're always hungry for more bandwidth because we're growing very fast. In fact we've grown from 27 people in January of last year to 140 people this year," Belkhir added. See the full article by clicking here.

Yahoo Finance
Earthtimes.org
December 4, 2007
Not everyone Lulus and has a digital copy of their novel, company handbook or yearbook waiting to be updated or published at the hit of a button. If you only have hard copies, there is now a solution to digitize bound books. Lulu.com's new partnership with Kirtas Technologies creates a way for you to give your rare or personal book collection a new life...

University Business
November 2, 2007
Kirtas Technologies in Victor will provide services to the Yale University Library, digitizing 100,000 out-of-copyright books for access through Microsoft's Live Search interface, it announced this week...
Democrat and Chronicle
October 31, 2007

TMCnet
October 31, 2007
Readers around the world will soon have online
access to thousands of rare books in Yale's Library thanks to an
agreement between the University and Microsoft Corp to digitize many
volumes found only in the Yale collections...

D-Lib Magazine
July 2007
According to a June 21, 2007 press release,1 online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis, selling only books that are either in the public domain or for which copyright is held by the library that provided the digitized book to Amazon. Amazon will then share the profits from the book sales with the library and with Kirtas Technologies, a participating company that sells the book-digitizing equipment that will be used by the libraries to digitize the books...

Disruptive Library Technology Jester
June 24, 2007
Why settle for mere digital copies of books (a la the Google Book Search project and the Open Content Alliance) when you can have an edition printed, bound and sent to you in the mail?

Metue.com
June 22, 2007
The commercial race to digitize the World’s libraries has, for the most part, been a two horse race with Microsoft and Google battling to sign up the worlds libraries and gain the rights to archive and index their rare, obscure or out of print titles...

The Post and Courier
June 22, 2007
BookSurge, a local unit of Amazon.com Inc., announced a deal Thursday to scan, publish and sell some of the world's rarest out-of-print books...

University Business
June 22, 2007
Amazon.com's BookSurge subsidiary announced Thursday that it has partnered with book digitization company Kirtas Technologies on a project to archive and distribute hard-to-find books. This new initiative involves collaboration with public and university libraries to provide their collections of "rare and inaccessible" books; the titles will be digitized through Kirtas and then reproductions will be sold through Amazon through the BookSurge print-on-demand service...
CNet News.com
June 21, 2007

Inside Higher Education
June 22, 2007
When Google announced a major expansion of its Library Project this month, attracting widespread attention, Emory University announced a different approach to digitizing collections. Unlike the Google model, Emory was only digitizing works that are no longer under copyright, and was retaining control over sale of the works (through print on demand)...

Chronicle of Higher Education
June 22, 2007
Amazon, which made its name selling books online, is now entering the book-digitizing business. Like Google and, more recently, Microsoft, Amazon will be making hundreds of thousands of digital copies of books available online through a deal with university libraries and a technology company...

Democrat and Chronicle
June 22, 2007
Cupology, published in 1904, is 105 pages of old-time advice on throwing a shindig, from tips on making toasts to facts to recite for the edification of all. But the volume has long been out of print, and if you've wanted it, you've had few options besides rare book dealers and driving 500 miles to the rare books collection at the Public Library of Cincinnati...

Rochester Business Journal
June22, 2007
Victor-based Kirtas Technologies Inc. has joined forces with BookSurge, an Amazon.com subsidiary, to preserve rare books at universities and public libraries and distribute them via BookSurge’s print-on-demand service...

Forbes.com
June 21, 2007
BookSurge, an Amazon group (Nasdaq: AMZN) and leader in Print on Demand services, and Kirtas Technologies, a world leader in high-quality nondestructive book digitization, today announced a collaboration with universities and public libraries to preserve thousands of rare and inaccessible books from their collections and distribute them via BookSurge's Print-on-Demand service...
Yahoo Finance
June 21, 2007
Library Technology
June 21, 2007
MSN Money
June 21. 2007
AOL Money & Finance
June 21, 2007

Charleston Business Journal
June 21, 2007
Charleston-based BookSurge, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc. and provider of print-on-demand services, and Kirtas Technologies, announced a partnership with universities and public libraries to preserve thousands of rare and inaccessible books from their collections and distribute them via BookSurge's Print-on-Demand service...

Print Week
June 21, 2007
Amazon-owned BookSurge and Kirtas Technologies have combined with universities and public libraries across the US to preserve, reproduce and distribute thousands of rare and inaccessible books...

Library Journal Academic Newsletter
June 21, 2007
The University of Maine, the Toronto Public Library, and the Cincinnati Public Library are joining Emory University in a plan to use Kirtas scanners to digitize public domain titles in their collections and to sell low-cost copies through BookSurge, the Amazon.com-owned print-on-demand (PoD) service...

The Book Standard
June 21, 2007
Kirtas Technologies has a new collaboration with BookSurge, a print-on-demand subsidiary of Amazon.com, and a group of universities and public libraries to digitize, preserve and sell copies of rare books...

Democrat and Chronicle
June 21, 2007
Kirtas Technologies, a Victor technology firm, is working with BookSurge, an Amazon.com subsidiary, to digitize thousands of rare and out-of-print books...

InfoToday Blog
June 4, 2007
My first trek through the SLA Exhibit Hall, I was attracted to a clicking sound in Booth 907. As I walked closer, I was mesmerized by what I saw. It was a Kirtas APT BookScan 2400, which was busily scanning a hefty book, page by page...

New Haven Register
February 28, 2007
NEW HAVEN — Joseph Merritt & Co. has formed a new book scanning ubdivision, centered around a state-of-the-art machine that can digitally scan 2,400 pages an hour...

FinanceVisor.com
February 16, 2007
Kirtas Technologies has signed an agreement with The Generations Network that is connecting families to rare historical information found in bound books, including immigration records and city directories that date back to the 1820s.
Democrat and Chronicle
February 14, 2007
Democrat and Chronicle
February 13, 2007
Genealoge
February 13, 2007
WhatTheyThink.com
February 12, 2007
Eastman's Online Geneology Newsletter
February 12, 2007

Family Research
February 15, 2007
Victor’s Kirtas Technologies Inc., a maker of high-speed document scanners, has signed a deal with The Generations Network to scan more than 75 million historical records.

UK Family Surnames
February 12, 2007
I wrote about Kirtas Technologies in a Plus Edition article a year or so ago. The company produces book scanners: place a book in the machine, press a button and walk away. The device will scan every page in the book, using a robotic arm to flip the pages of the book as needed.

Yahoo News Asia
October 30, 2006
DVD Recordable
October 30, 2006
A race is on to digitise the world's books, pitting Internet juggernaut Google against a vast anti-Google coalition backed by rivals Yahoo and Microsoft.

Line56
November 6, 2006
If you ask many authors and publishers, the spirit and substance of book digitization is not far removed from the music-swapping, copyright-baiting shenanigans of the early Napster era. If you ask technology vendors like Google and Microsoft, book swapping is a utopian endeavor destined to make human knowledge easily accessible over the Internet. This goes to show that book digitization is a controversial and divisive topic -- not merely in the tech world, but also in academia and entertainment.

SAWF News
October 29, 2006
In late August, Google restarted its Google Book Search project initiated in 2004 with the lofty aim of scanning every literary work into digital format and making them available online.

LibraryJournal.com
October 25, 2006
The Cornell University Libraries has agreed to a long-term partnership with Microsoft to digitize “a significant number” of its books and to put the volumes online using Microsoft’s Live Book Search service.

NewsFacto.com
October 20, 2006
ADOTAS.com
October 20, 2006
Microsoft continues to pry open the same can of worms that gave Google so much public grief in November of last year. The Redmond, WA giant has signed deals with digital scanning company Kirtas Technologies and the Cornell University Library to help add more content to its upcoming Windows Live Books program...

Webpronews.com
October 19, 2006
Cornell University and Kirtas Technologies, a maker of scanners and digitization software said Tuesday that they had signed deals with Microsoft to support its Windows Live Book Search Project. Microsofts answer to Google Book Search, announced in late 2004.

ZDNet Education
October 19, 2006
In the race to digitize the entire literary canon, Microsoft has announced a deal with high-speed scanning company Kirtas Technologies to scan works for Microsoft's Live Book Search Web-based application, the Financial Times says.

ARSTechnica.com
October 19, 2006
Microsoft has inked deals with two new partners that will eventually help the company's Windows Live Book Search come to complete fruition...

WebProNews.com
October 19, 2006
BetaNews.com
October 18, 2006
A university and a maker of scanners and digitization software said Tuesday that they had signed deals with Microsoft to support its Windows Live Book Search Project. The offering is the Redmond company's answer to Google Book Search, announced in late 2004...

Adict3D
October 18, 2006
We are excited to announce that Cornell University has joined our Book Search initiative. Like all of our library scanning partnerships, the Cornell project will focus on scanning books in the public domain. Cornell and Microsoft will be teaming with Kirtas Technologies in Victor, NY to digitize the books. Kirtas uses non-destructive scanning—an obvious must for library collections!

CNet News
October 18, 2006
Kirtas Technologies has agreed to scan books for Microsoft's Windows Live Book Search.

MPNnow
October 18, 2006
Having landed a "multi-year, multi-million dollar" contract with software giant Microsoft Corp., Kirtas Technologies plans to add 145 jobs, 30 of which should be in place by mid-December, said CEO Lotfi Belkhir.

ElectronicNews.net
October 18, 2006
According to the Financial Times, Microsoft has announced a deal with a digital scanning company to produce digital books. Kirtas Technologies, which makes high-speed scanners and the software to edit and organise books, will scan works for Microsoft's Live Book Search web-based application...

TechRepublic
October 18, 2006
CNetNews.com
October 18, 2006
ZDNet.com
October 18, 2006
Kirtas Technologies, a maker of high-speed scanners and digitization software, signed a deal Tuesday with Microsoft to scan works for its Windows Live Book Search project...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
October 18, 2006
Technology giant Microsoft Corp. needed a partner for its massive digital books project and found it in a 5-year-old company in Victor...

WebProNews.com
October 18, 2006
Cornell University has announced joint initiatives with Microsoft and Kirtas Technologies aimed at digitizing a majority of the school's library content. The volumes will be made available online via Microsoft's Live Book Search...

MSNBC.com
October 18, 2006
Microsoft on Tuesday took another step into Google's terrain by announcing a deal with a digital scanning company to produce digital books...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
October 17, 2006
Victor's Kirtas Technologies has signed a deal with Microsoft to produce digital books -- that will add 30 jobs.

Rochester Business Journal
October 17, 2006
Kirtas Technologies Inc. has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. calling for Kirtas to scan and digitize printed materials for Microsoft Window’s Live Book Search program. The Victor company expects to immediately add some 30 jobs as a result of the contract and could add more in the coming year...

Docume.nt
October 17, 2006
eeProductCenter
October 17, 2006
PR Newswire
October 17, 2006
KRON 4
October 17, 2006
Forbes.com
October 17, 2006
The Dallas Morning News
October 17, 2006
Earthtimes.org
October 17, 2006Kirtas Technologies, a leading innovator and provider of digital scanning solutions, is pleased to announce the signing of a digitization agreement with Microsoft Corp. to provide the highest quality digital books available in the world. The project includes both copyrighted material furnished by publisher partners as well as select collections of public domain material provided by library partners...

Northwestern University Library Briefings
Spring 2006
New Kirtas scanner preserves fragile documents...

Government Computer News
March 8, 2006
From the FOSE floor: Streaming video and robots...

Technology Today
February 2006
By Dr. Alan J. Pierce From Printed Books to Digital Searchable File The technologies that have brought us the printed word for the past six centuries are now being usurped by the digital-age concept of a paperless society.

ThomasNet
Februry 21, 2006
Utilizing 2 cameras and dual processing technique, APT BookScan 2400 rapidly scans materials. It uses Smart Cradle(TM) positioning to minimize stress on text; Sure Turn(TM) single page pick-up, which is gentler than human hand; and automated batch processing, which allows for minimal operator intervention. Scanner offers search and data management using XML, and document repurposing with OCR for 177 languages. BookScan Editor performs image post-processing functions.

The Book Standard
February 21, 2006
Checking Out the Machines Behind Book digitization...

XML Journal
January, 2006
Kirtas Debuts Fastest automated Book Scanner in History APT BookScan 2400
Product Scans 2400 Pages an Hour; Sets New Standard for Quality and Accuracy...

El Watan
15 mai 2006
Lotfi Belkhir est une sorte de “Golden Boy” de la Silicon Valey. Cet Algérien, à la quarantaine juvénile, vivant aux Etats-Unis, est physicien, chercheur, fondateur et PDG de Kirtas Technologies...

Canada.com
October 30, 2006
A race is on to digitize the world's books, pitting Internet juggernaut Google against a vast anti-Google coalition backed by rivals Yahoo and Microsoft.

NewsFactor.com
October 20, 2006
The book-scanning partnership with Kirtas is but one move among many that Microsoft has made of late to kick-start its Live Book Search program. In conjunction with the Kirtas announcement, the software giant announced it had landed a partnership with Cornell to boost the number of digital titles that would be made available...

Monitor Today
October 19, 2006
Microsoft has announced a deal with a digital scanning company Kirtas Technologies to produce digital books, nudging its way further into Google's territory.

P2PNet.net
October 18, 2006
Its Windows Live book project, "is part of a broader push by Microsoft to make up ground lost to Google and other search groups," says The Financial Times and accordingly, Kirtas Technologies which, says the story, makes high-speed scanners and the software to edit and organise books, will scan material for Microsoft...

CNW Group
October 17, 2006
Kirtas Technologies, a leading
innovator and provider of digital scanning solutions, is pleased to announce the signing of a digitization agreement with Microsoft Corp. to provide thehighest quality digital books available in the world. The project includes both copyrighted material furnished by publisher partners as well as select collections of public domain material provided by library partners.

Komputer
October, 2006
Hvis du er træt af forstyrrende kaffepletter og kiksekrummer, mens du læser, er der nu snart håb forude. Microsoft har nemlig indgået et samarbejde med softwarefirmaet Kirtas Technologies om at opbygge et digitalt bibliotek. Microsoft vil i første omgang skanne materiale fra Cornell-universitetets bibliotek, men firmaet har allerede aftaler i hus med blandt andre British Library og University of California. Materialet skal benyttes på tjenesten "Live Book Search", som skal være klar i starten af næste år.

Computerworld
October, 2006
For et års tid siden annoncerede Google, at de ville digitizere bøger fra universiteter som Stanford, Michigan og Harvard for at gøre dem tilgængelige på nettet.

Silicon.fr
November 15, 2006
Les projets de numérisation de millions d'ouvrages dans les bibliothèques fait toujours la 'une 'de l'actualité. Et la guerre fait rage entre les trois géants du Net: Google, Microsoft et Yahoo qui se sont lancés dans ces projets pharaoniques.

Le Figaro économie
November 6, 2006
Microsoft alimante sa bibliothèque en ligne

20 Minutes
October 30, 2006
Technaute (Word doc)
October 30, 2006
MetroFrance (Word document)
October 28, 2006
Une course de vitesse est engagée pour numériser les millions de livres du monde, opposant le géant Google à une vaste coalition anti-Google, l'OCA (Open Content Alliance), appuyée par ses rivaux Yahoo! et surtout Microsoft qui va se lancer à grande échelle sur ce terrain...

Le JournalduNet
October 23, 2006
Microsoft entend bien concurrencer Google sur la numérisation de livres et d'archives. Après avoir signé un partenariat avec la British Library pour publier en ligne ses ouvrages, la firme de Bill Gates vient de renouveler l'accord avec l'université américaine de Cornell. Le groupe Kirtas Technologies sera responsable de la numérisation de la bibliothèque.

Les Echos (PDF)
October 23, 2006
Le leader mondial des logociels, qui vient de signer un accord avec l'université américaine de Cornell, espère lancer au plus tard début 2007 un service concurrent du programme...

JDN Solutions
October 20, 2006
SearchMash est un nouvel outil de recherche mis en ligne par Google. Difficile de relier la marque à ce moteur. Seul élément permettant de faire le lien avec la société : la citation de son nom dans la rubrique "données personnelles". Pourquoi tant de secret autour de ce site ?

ITR News.com
October 20, 2006
La société Kirtas Technologies vient de signer un contrat majeur avec la firme de Redmond afin de procéder à la numérisation de milliers de livres qui seront bientôt disponibles sur le moteur Live Book Search (concurrent d’un service identique chez Google). Acteur majeur sur le marché des solutions de numérisation automatiques de livres, Kirtas Technologies annonce la signature de cet accord qui porte sur la numérisation haute qualité d’ouvrages que Microsoft va intégrer dans son moteur mondial de recherche d’ouvrages Live Book Search.

JDN Solutions
October 18, 2006
Kirtas Technologies signe avec Microsoft pour la numérisation de livres sur le moteur Live Book Search. L’acteur de la numérisation automatique de livres travaillera notamment sur le contenu de la bibliothèque universitaire de Cornell, associée au projet de Microsoft. Avec Live Book Search, Microsoft espère répondre à son concurrent Google, déjà positionné sur ce créneau...

Categorynet.com
October 19, 2006
EDU Bourse
October 18, 2006
Decideur.com
October 17, 2006
Kirtas Technologies, acteur incontournable sur le marché des solutions de numérisation automatiques de livres, annonce la signature d'un partenariat majeur avec Microsoft Corp. Cet accord porte sur la numérisation haute qualité par Kirtas d’ouvrages que Microsoft rendra disponible dans le monde entier sur son moteur Live Book Search. Ce projet comprendra aussi bien des ouvrages sous droits d’auteur fournis par les éditeurs partenaires, que des collections appartenant au domaine public fournies par les bibliothèques partenaires...

CNW Telbec
October 17, 2006
Kirtas Technologies, un chef de file
innovateur et un fournisseur de solutions en matière de scannage numérique, est heureux d'annoncer qu'il a signé un contrat de numérisation avec Microsoft Corp...

Acheteurs Publics
July/August 2006
Le marché de la numérisation de livres et de documents reliés connait une véritable explossion...

archimag
May 19, 2006
Les services proposés par les prestataires en numérisation dépassent la simple scannérisation de documents. Archivage probant, destruction réglementée, indexation et intégration dans une solution de Ged: autant d' aspects de la dématérialisation qui peuvent leurs être confiés...

Acheteurs Publics
March 22, 2006
La solution novatrice de numérisation de livres et de documents reliés, APT BookScan 1200 de chez Kirtas Technologies...

archimag
March 21, 2006
Kirtas Technologies lance le scanneur couleur automatique de livre "le plus rapide du marché" l'APT BookScan 2400 capable de numériser 2400 pages par heure...

France Info (audio)
Le marché de la numérisation
March 20, 2006
Présentateur :  JÉRÔME COLOMBAIN
A l'heure où Google veut numériser cinq millions de lires, quelques industriels se disputent le marché très alléchant de la transformation des ouvrages en fichiers informatiques. Kirtas présente une machine capable de numériser deux mille quatre pages à l'heure. Quant à I2S, elle présente la machine à numériser la plus rapide du monde...

Le Monde Informatique
February 24, 2006
Numéristation
Scanner vite et en couleurs...

Edubourse
February 23, 2006
Kirtas Technologies ouvre la voie du traitement d'images de très haute qualité avec le BookScan Editor Pro...

Le nouvel Economiste
February 23, 2006
l'Europe discute, l'Amérique numérise
Un an après l'initiative de Google de lancer sa bibliothèque virtuelle universelle...

Distributique
February 22, 2006
Scanner vite et en couleurs
Denier-né des scanners automatiques de Kirtas Technologies...

Livreshebdo
February 10, 2006
La numérisation, péril ou chance pour les auteurs de l' écrit? C' était l' objet d' une journée de débats àl a Société des gens de lettres, très alarmée par les perspectives d' Internet et le spectre de la licence globale esquissée lors du débat sur la Dadvsi...

Livreshebdo
February 10, 2006
Kirtas Technologie va répondre à l' appel d' offre de la BNF...

LePhotographe
February 2, 2006
Kirtas Technologie a été fondé par un ancien ingénieur de Xerox. La société conçoit et commercialise des solutions pour dupliquer des livres reliés à grande vitesse, mettant en oeuvre pour cela des outils mécaniques et logiciels innovants...

libération.fr
Mercredi 01 février 2006
Pour former une bibliothèque, il faut réunir des livres. Pour une bibliothèque numérique, il faut accumuler des copies numériques...

France Graphique
January 12, 2006
Kirtas Technologies choisit BacTec por distribuer l'APT BookScan 1200 en France

Reproduire & Impression
January 5, 2006
Kirtas vient de mettre sur le marché le scanner couleur automatique de livres 2400 (2400 pages couleur ou monochrome/ heure, notre photo), sans doute rne des machines les plus rapides du marché...

Caractere
January 1, 2006
L'américain , Kirtas Technologies qui était à la recherche d' un partenaire pour commercialiser ses produits en France, annonce avoir signé avec BancTec.

Die Zeit
November 9, 2006
Seit Google und andrere Internetfirmen Bücher digitalisieren wollen, planen Verlage selbst den Schritt ins Netz...

Winfuture
October 19, 2006
Microsoft hat jetzt einen Vertrag mit dem Unternehmen Kirtas Technologies abgeschlossen. Damit steht der schnellste Scanner der Welt jetzt für die Windows Live Book Search zur Verfügung, für die die Redmonder zahlreiche Bücher digitalisieren...

dot.net magazin
October 19, 2006
Entwickler.com
October 19, 2006
Microsoft hat Kirtas Technologies mit dem Scannen von Büchern für seine Live Book Search beauftragt. Kirtas stellt Scanner mit hoher Erfassungsgeschwindigkeit und Software zur Schrifterkennung her. Mit Hilfe eines robotischen Buch-Scanners wird das Unternehmen die Werke internationaler Bibliotheken erfassen. In der Stunde kann das System 2.400 Seiten scannen und in digitalen Text umwandeln...

Silicon.de
October 18, 2006
Das Unternehmen wird mit Hilfe eines robotischen Buch-Scanners die Werke internationaler Bibliotheken erfassen und für die Volltextsuche bereitstellen. Das US-Unternehmen fertigt Scanner mit sehr hohen Erfassungsgeschwindigkeiten und Software zur Schrifterkennung...

ZDNet.de
October 19, 2006
Am Dienstag hat Microsoft Verträge mit zwei neuen Partnern geschlossen, um sein Digitalisierungsprojekt für Bücher voranzutreiben. Erste Ergebnisse der Zusammenarbeit werden im Frühjahr 2007 über Windows Live Book Search angeboten...

Dragon Support
October 18, 2006
Für das Digitalisierungsprojekt 'Live Book Search', das Bestandteil der Windows-Live-Initiative ist, hat Microsoft eine Vereinbarung mit dem US-amerikanischen Scanning-Spezialisten Kirtas Technologies getroffen.

Heise Online
October 18, 2006
Für das Digitalisierungsprojekt Live Book Search, das Bestandteil der Windows-Live-Initiative ist, hat Microsoft eine Vereinbarung mit dem US-amerikanischen Scanning-Spezialisten Kirtas Technologies getroffen. Kirtas, das mit dem "APT BookScan 2400" den eigenen Angaben zufolge weltweit schnellsten vollautomatischen Buchscanner vertreibt, soll unter anderem Bücher der Cornell Universitätsbibliothek in Ithaka (New York) einscannen und verschlagworten. Die digitalisierten Werke sollen ab Anfang kommenden Jahres über Live Book Search für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich sein...

AON
October 18, 2006
Telekom-Presse
October 18, 2006Microsoft hat für seine Live Book Search, eine Volltextsuche für Bücher, den Scannerexperten Kirtas Technologies mit dem Digitalisieren von Büchern beauftragt. Das Unternehmen stellt Scanner mit sehr hohen Erfassungsgeschwindigkeiten und Software zur Schrifterkennung her...

BuchMarkt
October 17, 2006
Kirtas Technologies , ein Entwickler und Anbieter von digitalen Scanlösungen, gibt den Vertragsabschluss über ein Digitalisierungsprojekt mit der Microsoft Corp. bekannt. Ziel des Projekts ist der Aufbau einer virtuellen Bibliothek, die mit Unterstützung von Partnerverlagen und -bibliotheken sowohl urheberrechtlich geschützte als auch frei zugängliche Werke in höchster digitaler Qualität umfasst. Die Planungen sehen vor, die digitalisierten Bücher ab Beginn des kommenden Jahres über Live Book Search unter strenger Einhaltung der allgemein geltenden Copyright-Bestimmungen einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen, heißt es in einer Presseerklärung des Unternehmens. Damit erhalten sowohl Google als auch das Börsenvereins -Projekt Volltext neue Konkurrenz...

De.Internet.Com
October, 2006
Der Software-Konzern Microsoft hat Kirtas Technologies mit der Digitalisierung von Büchern beauftragt. Das Unternehmen stellt Scanner mit sehr hohen Erfassungsgeschwindigkeiten und Software zur Schrifterkennung her. Die von Kirtas gewonnenen Daten sollen in die Live Book Search einfließen, eine Volltextsuche für Bücher, teilte Microsoft gestern in Redmond, Washington, mit.

Daily News and Analysis
October 29, 2006
A race is on to digitise the world's books, pitting Internet juggernaut Google against a vast anti-Google coalition backed by rivals Yahoo and Microsoft...

Digital Document Magazine
November/December 2006
Tra libro digitale e Book on demand la distanza e sempre piu breve. Questo quanto si evince dall'intervista a Lotfi Belkir. Lo scenario del libro digitale visto attraverso gli occhi di un "tecnico-inven tore."

The Daily Bit
October 30, 2006
Oltre 3 miliardi di libri nel mondo, 560 anni di parole stampate. E la possibilità di “salvarli” dal tempo, renderli disponibili e aumentarne la fruibilità da parte degli utenti. Il programma di digitalizzazione di massa di libri Live Book Search di Microsoft, che segue a ruota l’iniziativa di Google Book, conferma il crescente interesse dei motori di ricerca per questa potenzialmente infinita opportunità di mercato...

Zam News
October 19, 2006
Microsoft ha stretto un accordo con Kirtas Technologies, azienda esperta nella tecnologia della scannerizzazione che permetterà di acquisire 2.400 pagine all'ora con un margine di errore di uno su 10.000 pagine...

Interfree.it
October 21, 2006
Yahoo Italia
October 21, 2006
CyberNews
October 21, 2006
Contratto di digitalizzazione tra Kirtas Technologies e Microsoft al fine di fornire libri digitali della più alta qualità disponibile al mondo. Il progetto comprende sia materiale coperto da copyright fornito da editori partner, sia raccolte selezionate di materiale di pubblico dominio forniti da biblioteche partner. Dall'inizio del prossimo anno, i libri saranno gradualmente disponibili al pubblico tramite Live Book Search...

SpotandWeb (PDF)
October 19, 2006
datamanager.it
October 18, 2006
Kirtas Technologies, leader nel campo dell'innovazione e fornitore di soluzioni di scansione digitale, annuncia la sottoscrizione di un contratto di digitalizzazione con Microsoft Corp. per fornire libri digitali della più alta qualità disponibile al mondo. Il progetto comprende sia materiale coperto da copyright fornito da editori partner, sia raccolte selezionate di materiale di pubblico dominio forniti da biblioteche partner.

Motoricerca
October 18, 2006
Microsoft ha annunciato un accordo con Kirtas Technologies, una società operante nel settore delle scansioni digitali. Kirtas Technologies si occuperà di trasferire in formato elettronico migliaia di libri per il servizio Live Book Search di Microsoft. I libri inizieranno ad essere disponibili a partire dal prossimo anno...

Softpedia
October 18, 2006
Both copyrighted material from Microsoft's publisher partners and public domain material from library partners will be gradually made available via Live Book Search. Kirtas Technologies will provide the digitized content for Microsoft's initiative. In this regard Kirtas has revealed the inking of a digitization agreement with the Redmond Company.

Playfuls.com
October 18, 2006
Kirtas Technologies announced the signing of a digitization agreement with Microsoft to provide the highest quality digital books available in the world. The project includes both copyrighted material furnished by publisher partners as well as select collections of public domain material provided by library partners...

IXBT.com
October 20, 2006
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Computing News
February 23, 2006
Kirtas Technologies has announced the APT BookScan 2400, an automated book scanner that features unprecedented speed, accuracy, and quality in its category...

La Vanguardia
October 30, 2006
El negocio de la digitalización masiva de libros está todavía en los inicios, ya que se estima que más de 3.200 millones de títulos, distribuidos entre las bibliotecas de todo el mundo, pueden transformarse en bytes, dijo a Efe el especialista Lofti Birkhas.

CincoDias.com
October 27, 2006
La empresa de Redmond se ha decidido a plantarle cara a Google en uno de sus negocios más incipientes, el de la búsqueda de libros.

CiberSur
November 15, 2006
La carrera para digitalizar y poner en Internet obras literarias de todo el mundo enfrenta al gigante estadounidense Google con una vasta coalición 'anti-Google' respaldada por sus rivales, los también estadounidenses Yahoo y Microsoft.

Datafull.com
October 19, 2006
Pisándole los talones a Google, pionero en este tipo de emprendimiento, la compañía de Redmond anunció un nuevo proyecto de digitalización de libros de alta calidad...

La Vanguardia
October 18, 2006
elEconomista
October 17, 2006
Canarias7
October 17, 2006
HoyInversion
October 17, 2006
La empresa Kirtas Technologies ha firmado un acuerdo con Microsoft Corp por el que le ofrecerá sus servicios de digitalización de libros de alta calidad, que estarán disponibles al público a partir de los primeros meses de 2007 a través de Live Book Search, informaron fuentes de Kirtas...

CDRInf
October 30, 2006
A race is on to digitize the world's books, pitting Internet juggernaut Google against a vast anti-Google coalition backed by rivals Yahoo and Microsoft.

P2PNet
October, 2006
Its Windows Live book project, "is part of a broader push by Microsoft to make up ground lost to Google and other search groups," says The Financial Times and accordingly, Kirtas Technologies which, says the story, makes high-speed scanners and the software to edit and organise books, will scan material for Microsoft.

NetImperative
October 18, 2006
Kirtas, which specialises in digital scanning solutions provider, will help Microsoft create digital books from both copyrighted material from publisher partners and collections of public domain material provided by library partners.

FT.com
October 18, 2006
Microsoft yesterday took another step into Google's terrain by announcing a deal with a digital scanning company to produce digital books.

BetaNews
October 18, 2006
A university and a maker of scanners and digitization software said Tuesday that they had signed deals with Microsoft to support its Windows Live Book Search Project. The offering is the Redmond company's answer to Google Book Search, announced in late 2004.

Silicon.com
October 18, 2006
Microsoft has announced a deal with a digital scanning company Kirtas Technologies to produce digital books, nudging its way further into Google's territory...

The Enquirer
October 17, 2006
THERE'S MORE Microsoft and Google chattering afoot with our Volish Overlords announcing a collaboration with the scanning specialists over at Kirtas Technologies, reports The Guardian...

Guardian Unlimited
October 17, 2006
Microsoft's strategic shift into Google territory took another step forward today with the announcement that the software giant has signed a digitisation agreement with a digital scanning specialist, Kirtas Technologies...

History of Science
December, 2005
An Annotated Chronology of the History of Information from about 30,000 B.C.E. to the present, by Jeremy M. Norman. Kirtas earns its first mark on history: many more to come....

American Printer
September 5, 2005
nRegister readers recently learned how AMERICAN PRINTER helped one of the largest graphic arts repositories in the United States complete its collection of Inland Printer magazines...

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
January 2005
"In an effort to preserve them and provide more access to its local history collection, the Rochester Public Library is buying a high-tech scanner to digitize more than 1.5 million pages of materials. The library is the first public library in the country to purchase the Kirtas Technologies APT BookScan 1200 and hopes to become a digitizing leader in the industry. "

USA Today
December 2004
'Recently, start-ups such as Kirtas Technologies of Victor, N.Y., have introduced automated book-scanning machines that can turn pages. Kirtas' book scanner uses a robotic arm to flip pages past a 16-megapixel Canon digital camera.'

USA Today
December 2003
'Kirtas Technologies CEO Lotfi Belkhir invents book digitizing machine.'

Daily Messenger
October 2003
'Kirtas Technologies has made a machine that automatically flips through books and photographs the pages.'

Rochester Business Journal
June 2003
'The Kirtas Technologies, Inc. story is a page turner--literally.  The Victor firm makes a machine featuring a robotic page turner...' 

Strategy & Leadership
May/June 2003
'This CEO of a cutting edge high tech company advocates managing innovation with the same patience and forbearance called for in the process of birthing and bringing up children.'

Catch of the Day 
June 2002
'[Kirtas'] key asset...the man who developed the first paper feeder for Xerox.'

Reproduire & Impression
December 30, 2005
L' année 2005 a été marquée par les fusions et rachats de fournisseurs, par les standards utilisés par les solutions logicielles documentaires, et par les nouveaux multifonctions couleur.

Silicon.fr
15 September 2005
Les projets de bibliothèque virtuelle annoncés par Google et par l'Europe font la une des journaux. Objectif, numériser des millions d'ouvrages afin d'en permettre l'accès en ligne. Mais qui aura en charge le lourd et difficile travail de numérisation?

AFP-Direct
PARIS, 15 sept 2005
Kirtas Technologies, qui se définit comme "le leader américain de la numérisation de livres", a décidé d'investir le marché français, a annoncé jeudi à Paris son président, Lotfi Belkhir.

La Tribune-fr
September 2005
Kirtas Technologies, qui se définit comme "le leader américain de la numérisation de livres", a décidé d'investir le marché français, a annoncé jeudi à Paris son président, Lotfi Belkhir."

Tokyo TV
July 5, 2005
Video clip from Asian Book Fair report