IDI to be Highlighted in Major Feature Documentary

llInnovative Document Imaging’s automatic book imaging technologies will be part of a major feature documentary. The film, titled World Brain: The Internet and the Future of Knowledge, is directed by award-winning British filmmaker Ben Lewis.

World Brain examines the creation of a universal digital library by Project Gutenberg, Google Books and others, and features interviews with prominent thinkers and librarians such as Lawrence Lessig, Jason Lanier, and Richard Ovenden. The documentary will be shown at international film festivals in 2013 and will air on the BBC, France’s Arte channel, as well as on public service broadcasters throughout the world.

The footage featuring IDI shows the simultaneous scanning of a large book project using Kirtas units and an upright book scanner. The documentary’s producers approached IDI because they were “impressed by the technologies that IDI is offering for automatic book digitization and reputation for excellence,” communicated the documentary production department in an e-mail to IDI President, Marty Tannenbaum.

Innovative Spotlight: Preserving a Lifetime of Memories

pic22Innovative Document Imaging recently completed an update to a personal digital imaging project for Glenn Kramon, the awardwinning journalist and managing editor. This was before the days of Digital Memory Media and Mr. Kramon found IDI through an internet search. “I wanted to digitize almost half a century’s worth of personal journals and photo albums,” wrote Kramon in a recent email. “Marty (and Harvey Berlent) at the time were accustomed to much bigger jobs, like digitizing law libraries and newspaper archives. But IDI took on my project …,” he added Delighted that enough books “to fill the back of a pickup truck” now “fit in a small drawer,” Kramon came back to IDI for some additional work. He’s happy with the extra digital copies, too. “If one set is lost or damaged, my treasures are preserved. And now my daughter in college can keep her own copies for her computer,” he wrote.

About the experience, Kramon wrote that he “would recommend IDI with much enthusiasm. Marty and his team are collegial and responsive — good people to do business with.”

 

IDI Digital Memory Media

DMM heats up in August with sessions at New Jersey’s Fellowship Village retirement community (August 2nd) and Edison Public Library on the 11th. Look for these Digital Memory Media sessions at a library or community center near you soon.

  • August 11, 2012 – Edison Public Library
  • September 29, 2012 – Piscataway Public Library
  • October 13, 2012 – East Brunswick Public Library
  • October 20, 2012 – Plainfield Public Library
  • October 24, 2012 – Long Branch Public Library
  • October 27, 2012 – North Brunswick Public Library
  • November 3, 2012 – Princeton Family YMCA

Digital Memory Media sessions are coming to Queens and Long Island, NY!

Sponsoring libraries receive 20% of all proceeds from Digital Memory Media sessions. Want to bring Digital Memory Media to your library? Please contact Marty Tannenbaum at 800.380.9058 or by email at martyt@idiimage.com.

As always, I want to thank the Innovative Document Imaging and Digital Memory Media teams for their excellent work.

Have you had the chance to visit the Digital Memory Media website? We are in the process of redesigning the IDI website, so check back soon to see the exciting changes!

Thank you for your business and warmest regards!

Sincerely,

Marty

Martin Tannenbaum

Innovative Document Imaging