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LuraTech GmbH
Press Information
October 31, 2005
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The Internet Archive Chooses LuraTech's LuraWave® JP2 and LuraDocument®
PDF Compressor for Groundbreaking Open Library Project
JPEG2000/Part 1 Solution Integrated Into Core Workflow and Selected as the
Digital Master Solution; JPEG2000/Part 6-Style PDFs Selected as Key
Distribution Access Format
San Jose, California - LuraTech, leading provider of imaging and document software
technologies for the library and archiving market, today announced that the
Internet Archive has chosen the LuraTech LuraWave® JP2 and LuraDocument®
PDF Compressor for all of their book digitization projects. The first major
implementation will be the Open Library project supported by the Open Content
Alliance (OCA), an alliance of global cultural, technology, nonprofit, and
governmental organizations including Microsoft, Yahoo!, and the University of
California system. The LuraWave JP2 implementation of JPEG2000 has been integrated
into the Internet Archive's core workflow, allowing the electronic capture and
creation of digital masters of all scanned materials. LuraDocument PDF Compressor
has also been selected as the core compression standard and OCR engine for the
books distributed in the PDF format at the Internet Archive. The LuraWave and
LuraDocument products from LuraTech will allow the Internet Archive and the OCA
to create document archives with extremely small file size but extremely high quality.
"Acceptance of the JPEG2000 open standard by the Internet Archive, the
touchstone for innovation in the archiving world, is a key step forward for
libraries and archives around the globe," said Mark E. McKinney, Vice
President of sales and marketing for LuraTech. "They are creating highly
accessible files through the combination of LuraTech's MRC compression techniques
and Adobe's ubiquitous PDF Viewer, providing the world digitized books that are
both small in file size, high in image quality and readable by any device."
By implementing the JPEG2000 standard, the Internet Archive will be able to
maintain well-compressed, "lossless" versions of their books that are
guaranteed to be viewable by future generations. Moreover, the JPEG2000 and PDF
files will contain rich meta data, including searchable text generated by the
integrated OCR engine.
"The OCA project is very important for the free distribution of information,
literature, and entertainment worldwide," said Carsten Heierman, President
and CEO of LuraTech. "We are proud to be an integral part of this
groundbreaking project. But we are equally proud to be selected as a primary
vendor to deliver affordable, professional implementation of the open ISO standard
formats, like JPEG2000."
Headed up by the Internet Archive, the OCA will create an archive of digitized
text and multimedia content. The material will include cultural, historical and
technological digitized print and multimedia content from libraries, archives and
publishers. Content will be hosted in a single, permanent repository and complete
works will be searchable and downloadable for free by anyone, and the initial
digitized content will be made available to all search engines by the end of 2005.
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded to build an "Internet
library," with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers,
historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Internet Archive
includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages
in their collections.
www.archive.org
About LuraTech
LuraTech is a leading provider of software technology for images and documents
as well as JPEG2000 implementations. The company delivers easy-to-integrate,
open-standard products, coupled with enterprise-class support for public and
private sector organizations. Leveraging JPEG2000, the LuraWave JP2 and
LuraDocument JPM products make the compression of color images faster, more
feature-rich and affordable than ever before.
Organizations around the world have adopted LuraTech products, including Avision,
Canon, Corel Corporation, Duerr Dental, EADS, European Space Agency, FujiFilm,
IMAGE PRO, IXOS SOFTWARE, Kodak Medical, Minol, NYPD, ReproZentrum Rosenberger,
Scanpoint and VITRONIC. LuraTech, founded in 1995, is headquartered in Germany
with offices throughout Europe and the U.S.
For more information, visit the LuraTech website at
www.luratech.com.
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Contact LuraTech
LuraTech, Inc.
www.luratech.com
Fon.: (408) 294 - 6901
Fax: (408) 294 - 6902
info@luratech.com
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Please get in touch if you have any questions or require more information:
North American media contact:
Lori Vierthaler
Phone: 316-992-8271
E-Mail: lori@viercomm.net
European media contact:
Nicole Körber
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Phone: +49 (0)451 / 8 81 99 - 12
E-Mail: luratech@goodnews.de
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