Munich: 1.5 Million Digitized Volumes for Google Books in MyBib Workflow Database

Since 2004 Bavarian State Library is contributing with its rarities to the ever growing book treasure of Google Books Project. From the beginning on the inhouse workflows in Bavarian State Library has been managed and tracked with a so called MyBib workflow data base.

Working with that database you can forget Excel-Lists; every minute you can say what is the processing status of each book or item. Either it is ready for delivery to Google Books Scan Center, or it is delivered back, if the digitized data is available or must the book be taken to a bookbinder before leaving the house.

Our scan and post-processing client BCS-2 is constantly being developed further. With the new release, we have optimized the following function blocks in addition to a number of smaller improvements:

For faster Quality Control in the digitization center – integration of a preview for selected scanners to check the scan quality during data transfer

For improved OCR – integration of Tesseract version 5.3

Additional scanners were connected in 64-bit mode: RICOH- /FI-, Avision and InoTec-Scamax scanners were connected via 64-bit. This provides a range of small to high-performance scanners and overhead scanners.

Higher throughput for JPEG2000 creation – integration of multithreading to fully utilize the performance of PCs with 4,6,8 cores.

The complete scope of services can be found in the release notes, see https://manuals.imageware.de/en/bcs-2/bcs-2-office-and-professional/release-notes/bcs-2-version-6-6/.

Customers with a BCS-2 Office/Professional V6.4 and maintenance contract will receive the upgrade to V6.6 free of charge. For delivery please send an informal mail with your BCS-2 license number to info@imageware.de.

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You are invited to ask our support team for individual sessions!

International distributors of ImageWare and ImageAccess are invited to arrange a training session. With BCS-2 Office and Professional you have an up-to-date variable scan client that meets the latest security standards. Suitable for simple scanning tasks, document delivery, additional indexing, post-processing and the individual design of workflows.
More information under BCS-2 – ImageWare. If you want to see more click on our Video Tutorial – IWC-Manuals (englisch) (imageware.de) 

For an appointment, please contact info@imageware.de.

The roll-out of BCS-2 Office as a scan client for interlibrary loans (ILL/Document Delivery) and kitodo in the Bavarian Library Network will begin in March. For all libraries that have been using BCS-2 Classic up to now, the changeover will now begin, and other interested libraries will also have the opportunity to obtain a network licence.

The ImageWare team wishes all customers and partners a happy new year! After many challenges for all of us in the last three years, 2023 will probably also be a challenging year. Stay confident and healthy! As usual, we will work with dedication to ensure that your projects are successfully completed and the systems run reliably. We look forward to the next encounters – online and in person! See you soon !

After 15 years in the center of Bonn, the ImageWare team has moved to new premises on the sunny side of the Rhine in Bonn-Beuel. Whoever wants to visit us is always welcome. From the train station in Bonn-Beuel, we are only a few minutes walk away.

The new address is: ImageWare Components GmbH, Auguststr. 19, 53229 Bonn, Germany.

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The contact options will not change for you. You can reach us by phone, e-mail and fax at the existing numbers and addresses.

Please inform all contact persons and departments in your company about these changes.