LIMB Processing

Post-digitisation software for processing, enhancing and converting digital cultural heritage

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Import

Structuring

Image processing

Export

Quality control

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Publish

Transforming your physical collections into digital data

LIMB Processing enriches scanned images for libraries, archives, and digitization departments. The software offers tools for cleaning, quality control, metadata addition and conversion into various formats. Whether it’s a digitization workflow or existing files (PDF, TIFF, JPEG), it automates processing and enriches images with structural metadata. It is the link between digitized images and a wide range of end-uses, such as digital libraries, long-term archiving, e-book publishing and more.

Step 1
Step 1

Import

images and metadata from a wide range of sources (scanners, existing files, microfilm).

Step 2
Step 2

Image Processing

Over 40 image processing tools are available in this software. Standard functions are included, such as:

  • alignment,
  • resizing,
  • binarization,
  • le contrast,
  • brightness.

Unique functions are also available such as:

  • background removal,
  • curvature correction,
  • lighting correction,
  • image segmentation.

Step 3
Step 3

Quality control

Automatic analysis of each image to detect blurring, overexposure, duplication and partial images, and alerts the operator to suspect images.

Step 4
Step 4

Structuring

  • Page numbers,
  • covers,
  • body,
  • chapters,
  • table of contents,
  • illustrations, etc.

LIMB processing also offers several OCR package options with different language packs (Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean) to suit your needs.

Step 5
Step 5

Export

Create multiple output formats (multi-page TIFF, JPG, JPEG 2000, PDF, etc.). Advanced renaming and compression parameters are available for all formats.

Step 6
Step 6

Publish

your content, metadata and multimedia files on LIMB Gallery, your digital library.

The workflow can be customized by the supervisor for each post-scanning project by creating templates for all future jobs, enabling faster and more consistent processing.

NB: Compatible with METS, ALTO, DC, MODS, MARC, XML metadata standards.

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