The Internet Archive introduces a YouTube livestream revealing the process of digitizing microfiche, the film sheets that store miniaturized documents. This initiative provides a behind-the-scenes look at how physical documents, such as newspapers and court records, are transformed into digital formats. At the Richmond, California digitization station, operators feed the microfiche into high-resolution cameras, which capture and stitch together images of the documents. Following this, tools are used to crop and make the pages searchable before they are uploaded to the Archive's public collections, all while accompanied by relaxing lo-fi music.
Operators feed microfiche cards beneath a high-resolution camera, which captures multiple detailed images of each sheet. Software stitches these images together, after which other team members use automated tools to identify and crop up to 100 individual pages per card.
The Internet Archive launched a new YouTube livestream that shows the digitization of microfiche in real time - complete with some relaxing, lo-fi beats.
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