London
School of Economics
‘The
Beaver’ is the weekly newspaper of the London School of Economics Students
Union at the LSE.
MAX
Communications was commissioned to digitise all issues since 1949 when the
newspaper was first produced.
The
work involved colour balancing and sizing of each individual copy to be
incorporated into ‘page turning software’. The work demanded full image consistency
to capture the look, feel and content of each page.
The
archive of back issues is now a searchable resource and we were responsible for
the full Optical Character Recognition of over 20,000 pages of text. The output
of the OCR process involved production of PDF/A, full Tif images, text and XML
files.
