The Vatican digitizes all its archives
Through the Fujitsu company, the Vatican will work to bring its historical documents to the digital world
The Vatican Dicastery for Communication appointed PFU, the Fujitsu-branded scanner subsidiary, to assist in the digitization of its historical documents, dating back more than a hundred years.
Established in 2015, the Dicastery for Communication was created by the Pope for the purpose of restructuring communications to respond more effectively to the mission of the Catholic Church.
As part of this project, a single digital archive was created to preserve all the documents from these departments and that could be used as a source of research resources. This included a wide variety of document types, from newsletters bound in volumes, to books, brochures, and news of events at the Vatican from over a hundred years ago.
“Historical documents such as those held by the Vatican Dicastery for Communication provide a comprehensive record of the history of the Catholic Church”, PFU (EMEA) President and CEO Hiroaki Kashiwagi said in a statement.
For the digitization of these files, a Fujitsu fi-7900 scanner was selected, assisted by the Paperstream Capture software package, which automates the validation of information and allows the extraction of data from a wide variety of documents printed on different types of paper, with different formats, thicknesses, materials and sizes.
Source: dpa
