Identity and mission

Identity

Since 1992, i2S DigiBook has been developing unique technological know-how that has made it the world leader in the digitization of books and bound documents through the manufacturing and marketing of a complete range of bookscanners, as well as image-processing and indexing software suites.

The cultural and economic challenges revealed by the major library digitization programs and by electronic publishing have led i2S DigiBook to develop in parallel an offering of assistance, consulting and services for major institutions.

Today, i2S DigiBook is involved in major programs for digital libraries and archives throughout France and around the world.

Constantly seeking to optimize its equipment, i2S DigiBook follows a strong policy of innovation. For example, out of a dual concern for protecting originals and operator comfort, the CopiBook scanner range is equipped with a scanning head that is unique in the world in that it allows electronic high-definition document capture without additional artificial light.

Similarly, as part of a venture capital high-tech consortium with the Swiss company ASSY-4DigitalBooks, i2S DigiBook already has a considerable market share of the digitization market within the emerging segment of systems with automatic page-turners. The largest European archive digitization center, located at Walck (AMALFI project) in the region of Strasbourg (France), is equipped with four of its Digitizing Line scanners, that work three 8-hour shifts, six days a week, and will be digitizing more than 10 million pages a year.

Mission

i2S DigiBook's mission is to offer its customers (libraries, archives, service providers, governmental organizations and corporations) a new value chain allowing them to meet the cultural, technological and economic challenges arising from the digitization and enhancement of heritage materials, such as:

• Reliability and completeness of digital reproduction
  
• Physical protection of original documents during digitization
  
• Digital preservation of heritage content
  
• Cost reduction over the entire digitization chain
  
• Accessibility to digitized works for as large a segment of the general public as possible
  
• Creation of innovative multimedia content
• Respect for intellectual property rights and copyrights
  
  

… while also preparing for the future through semantic analysis of printed and handwritten documents, intelligent searches through photographs and engravings, and the digital reconstruction of works.