March 9, 2016 Tsadra Foundation’s Research Department, nestled amongst the picturesque foothills of the majestic Rocky Mountains in Boulder, Colorado has recently selected Kirtas’ KABIS IIIw book scanner from Ristech’s unique line of high quality digitization systems to help contribute to the preservation of Tibetan Buddhist culture and further its mission to support the advancement…
February 23, 2016 Flying circles in an endless holding pattern with your current digitization workflow? docWorks offers a virtual cockpit and command center for managing production workflow and system environment of digitization projects. A comprehensive solution that easily navigates through large or multiple digitization projects; Streamlined Multiproject Management and Statistical Analysis removes unexpected take-off delays…
January 19, 2016 Kirtas’ parent company, Ristech Co. has been presented the Modern Library Award for Gold distinction for the Book2net Kiosk II Book Scanner with Integrated 71MP at the 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. The award was based on judging by librarians who use the Kiosk. This year’s program featured over 50…
January 11, 2016 With nearly 15 years of experience as a designer, manufacturer and provider of automated bound document digitization solutions, Kirtas also provides digitization services through its Service Bureau, located at its headquarters in the picturesque Finger Lakes region south of Rochester, New York. Our service bureau strives to provide color accurate, high resolution,…
December 23, 2015 Digitizing analog documents, books and works of art has developed into a broad-based professional activity with the aim of saving and preserving our cultural heritage and making it accessible to research and reference for generations to come. The proliferation of digital image processing and enhancement techniques along with the development of high-resolution…
October 21, 2015 Ristech is excited to announce that we are now offering the LuraTech PDF Compressor software technology that can benefit your operation of providing Cultural Heritage content easily via the internet to your patrons. The PDF Compressor is the professional solution for high quality, process-oriented conversion and compression. It is flexible, scalable, and…
September 9, 2015 TOLEDO, OHIO — A teenager’s diary documenting life in a Soviet labor camp more than seventy years ago is now available for the public to read, thanks to a digital preservation project by the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. The diary is among the first documents digitized in the library’s new digitization lab.…
Manager: “Where are we on the Hanover Project?” Supervisor: “Hold on. Let me check my spreadsheet. I haven’t finished entering all the numbers from the last shift yet.” Manager: “Oh. I’m asking because a customer is looking for an update on document 3988750493.” Supervisor: “Hmm sounds familiar. According to the spreadsheet it was last in…
April 10, 2015 When it comes to digitization, so many options are available that it sometimes becomes more time consuming to figure out what image specifications are needed than to actually digitize of the material in question. Let’s take a look at two of the most common file formats and their benefits and trade-offs. In…
