Open AccessAre Your Digital Documents Web Friendly?: Making Scanned Documents Web Accessible
Author(s) -
Yongli Zhou
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
information technology and libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2163-5226
pISSN - 0730-9295
DOI - 10.6017/ital.v29i3.3140
Subject(s) - world wide web , upload , computer science , the internet , digital library , user friendly , multimedia , art , literature , poetry , operating system
The Internet has greatly changed how library users search and use library resources. Many of them prefer resources available in electronic format over traditional print materials. While many documents are now born digital, many more are only accessible in print and need to be digitized. This paper focuses on how the Colorado State University Libraries creates and optimizes text-based and digitized PDF documents for easy access, downloading, and printing