Brief Description of Dar Alraqmana vision and services. http://daralraqmana.com/

1. Digitization and Archiving
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2. DAR Al-raqmana Vision
 Digitization is not a new concept. Yet, it doesn’t reach its potentials.
 Our goal is to help in preserving and enriching the significant content, i.e. Heritage Maps, Books, Rare
manuscripts, Family history, Newspaper, Old Purchase orders and forms, Old Contracts…etc
 Our Endeavor to look after content! We’ll be creating a state-of-art and integrated digitization facility along
side a fine digital repository platform with Browsing, Searching, reading and long-term preservation
capabilities.

3. DAR Al-raqmana Perspective of Digitization
 Digitization is not equal to Scanning!
 Scanning is pivotal, but it’s only a starting phase.
 Our target is to ;
 Save the original documents
 Enrich the digital content with metadata and content classification and analysis
 Create one-stop-platform to make the digital content at the user’s fingertip
 We provide full stack of services aims at diminishing the access to the original
document

4. DAR Al-raqmana Services
 Long Term Preservation
 Model the documents into Self-Contained package,
 OAIS Standard compliant w
 Maintain the Original archival packages and Deployment packages
 All backup, security and data integrity measures.
 Digitization workflow
 Orchestrate the production.
 Manages the operators, machines, servers, integration with other platforms, editing , reviewing and
reporting
 High quality imaging
 Select the suitable scanners and scanning method to achieve 100% digital replica
 Enrich document descriptive metadata.
 Copyright evaluation engine:
 Our copyright engine takes care of the original copyrights, publishing date, location-based and user
level access.

5. DAR Al-raqmana Services (Cont.)
 Arabic Text Recognition
 As well as, Latin text recognition; we are expert in handling the Arabic Text. Our calibers can
analyze the text fonts and provide machine readable libraries, that elevate the OCRing recognition
to produce more than 99% guaranteed quality for modern text.
 One-Stop platform
 Browse, Search, Download, Print, Comment, Share and Personalize.
 Responsive design, for web-based or mobile browsing.
 High quality Search
 Exact and Morphological search (stem or root based) for both Arabic and Latin text.
 Content Search; the End user will be capable of searching the documents’ content, populating
search snippets and highlight.
 All-In-One viewer
 Out Image-on-text viewer will group all mentioned above functionalities in one location.

6. Collection Care and imaging
 We Handle the content with maximum care
 Assess the content based on Color set, paper size, paper quality and
Many other factors
 Select the best approach to take the image
 Scanners
 Cameras
 Negatives readers
 Choose the most appropriate DPI, resolution, color profile, lighting
software and APIs to maintain the original files and
create a digital replica and web oriented copy as well

7. Proper Ocring for High quality Search
 Dar Al-raqmana developed a new machine readable Font library to reach a highest level of OCR
accuracy
 The output of OCR process will be fed to a powerful Arabic-oriented search engine
 We handle the Stem of the word to get more than Exact result; e.g.
search with ‫خطابة‬
and you’ll get hits like ‫الخطابة‬,‫بالخطاب‬,‫للخطابة‬

8. System Architecture
 We developed a customized and service oriented architecture. That fulfill all the list of features
(mentioned previously)

9. Quality Assurance
 We do believe that the shortest way to the user satisfaction is the Quality
 Quality assurance is a key process in our workflow
 We incorporate 2 levels of QA;
 Page level: an operator will review each and every page and make sure it meets certain standards
 Item level: Ensure the whole quality of the images with the ocr output meets certain standards

10. Building the Digitization Facility
 We do;
 Supply the equipment to existed digitization center
 Build it from scratch, with the top notch Scanners, Digital Cameras, PCs, Calibrated Monitors, Software

11. Outsourcing/Consultation Solutions
 We have a quite large bank of experts, in every field of
of our Digitization Services.
 We are happy to supply a high skilled and well trained staff, to
Institutions that plan to build digitization environment
 We do provide a consultation and devising the suitable
Digitization solutions

12. Training
 Offer training in the latest digitization techniques and standards.
 Conduct training in specific areas; the measures of quality assurance, the techniques of image
processing and optical character recognition (OCR).
 Provide training in building state-of-art digital repository

13. Digitization Workflow

14. For More Info:
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