Global Financial Organization Creates Digital Treasure Trove of Key Documents

Innodata Isogen Digitizes Extensive Collection of Legacy Publications

Challenge

A global financial organization charged with overseeing and monitoring foreign exchange rates, balance of payments and government economic models has consistently recorded its past and ongoing activities and viewpoints in an extensive publications library. These publications not only serve as documents of record, but also help financial analysts and other observers shape government economic policy in countries worldwide.

In the past, many of these documents existed only on paper. However, the organization recently decided to maximize the value of this content repository by converting 25 years’ worth of publications to an electronic format. This would enable the content to be searched and retrieved on-line, providing greater ease of use and vastly expanding the potential audience.

Moreover, the industry's unrelenting price wars put the company under intense pressure to control costs. While the company needed to maintain adequate staffing levels in its technical publishing department to support product launches, they also wanted to streamline what had become a cumbersome process to produce documents for both the print and web...