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MPS was asked to provide large-scale hard copy to PDF and XML conversion services for a journal publisher’s archive, which consisted of about 100 years of historic data.

• Scanning hardcopy materials of different sizes and quality at an initial at level of 600 DPI to make the digital copy (TIFF) usable for other purposes.
• Providing good-quality PDFs of the oldest input material, which had begun to deteriorate.
• Taking care to preserve the original material, some of which constituted the only existing copies.

• Conducted R&D to arrive at the desired specification for the final deliverable.
• Set up a highly automated workflow to streamline PDF generation and XML production workflow.
• Scanned the source hard copy at 600 DPI following a well-validated sequenced process to generate the final PDFs.
• Streamlined the steps in Photoshop (dust/clean-up, orientation, and color mapping, sizing) and in Adobe Acrobat (alignment, PDF settings and text search ability).