Editorial
My dear readers,
In last month’s editorial, I informed you about the need of eNewspaper to be published by Indian language newspaper industry on web. Few newspapers are doing this (may not be scientifically but with whatever ways & means, choices, etc. each one of them had). But large numbers of Indian language newspapers are yet to understand & realise the importance of eNewspaper.
While I was writing this editorial, I also read another wonderful & powerful news article that matters to India, to Indians and to Indian Newspaper industry.

• Please do visit this web link: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ & do read the article.
• Subject of the article is “Starting today, the Newseum is testing a watermarking system to prevent illegal downloads of the newspaper front pages.”
• Do share with others.
• Do spread this.
• Empower India and empower Indians.

Global warming, paperless office, etc. are buzz words of today’s time and they have been discussed, debated, etc. for last one decade. But we as Indians, are we reacting on it, are we working-acting on it, are we taking necessary steps? Each question would be INR 1.00 Cr. question.
But to support this aspect of business, your Modular is geared up to handle the task in hand. Modular has floated full-fledged BPO division. In this division, we do help our customers to make their office as paperless office.

• We have already won 2 newspaper customers whose already printed newspapers are getting converted in to eFormat.
• We have already won 2 educational institutes orders. In one order, we are converting large number of books in to eFormat. In another institute, we are converting “hand-written Sanskrit slips” in to “searchable database engine”
• We have already won contracts from a number of ship building firms from Singapore where important help manuals, drawings, etc. are getting converted in to eFormat.
• We have also won Govt. of India’s undertaking organisation order for converting huge number of already printed documents in to eFormat.

We are also happy to inform you that, your Modular developed a very unique homemade “scanner” to handle these challenges. This is very unique development from India perspective because many times, we as Indians do bank on/rely on MNC’s. In that context of discussions, this is really news to be proud of that we would like to share with you.
If time permits and if there is a task in hand which inspires you to visit Pune? Please do visit Modular office and have a look at this development done by your Modular.
Thanks to Mr. R. R. Joshi (Founder & Director) and his entire team to come out with this tailor-made unique product that gives us a great space against all odds/evens.
Thanking you and wishing you all the best.

Phadke Subodhkumar Narayan
(mail : phadke@modular-infotech.com)

Digitization
Digitization is the conversion of paper documents to an electronic form.
Trend
The transformation of twenty-first century business is under way using the modern Digitization Technology. At the heart of this wide-ranging transformation is the use of technology to provide services of digitization, archival and retrieval of documents.
Market leaders in every industry are quietly incorporating as much digital technology into their products, processes, and services as possible. These companies are beginning to see the financial results—better operating margins and lower costs and faster access to data —with the added plus of real-time interaction with the customer.
Modular Infotech Pvt. Ltd. provides a One Stop Solution for all your Digitization, Archival and Retrieval requirements.
Digitization Services include

• Digitization of Office Documents, Manuals, Bound Volumes, Diagrams, Newspapers, Books, Articles, Magazines, Photographs, Maps, Manuscripts, Rare Books, Journals, Paper-records and Born-digital records, which can all be of various sizes.
• Data Conversion from one file format to Searchable PDF with XML Metadata, JPEG, TIFF, XML, HTML, DOC Etc.
• Conversion of Books into PDF files/E-Books.
• Digitization of Medical Records.
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
• Keypunching, Date capture & Form Processing (English and Indian Language).
• Creation of metadata for documents.
• De-speckling, de-skewing, cropping, image-processing, QC to required accuracy level, Image Editing, image processing and restoration, cleaning and archival is done - usually in .pdf, or any other user specified format.
• Indexing.
• Uploading of digitized documents to DMS.
• Archival/Retrieval Solution.
• Supply and Implementation of DMS.

Benefits

• Reduction of paper handling and error-prone manual processes
• Reduction of paper storage
• Reduction of lost documents
• Faster access to information
• Online access to information that was formerly available only on paper, microfilm, or microfiche
• Sharing information without creating paper copies
• Lowering costs of physical storage and retrieval.
• Preserving Integrity of records.