Usage examples

Usage examples

The term digitization is often used when diverse forms of information, including text, sound, image and voice, are encoded in a single 0-1 binary code. Digital information exists in only one of two forms -0 or 1- which are called bits (a contraction of 'binary digits'), and the sequences of 0s and 1s that constitute information are called bytes. [3]

The term is often used for the scanning of analog sources, such as printed photos or taped videos into computers for editing, but it also can refer to audio (where sampling rate is often measured in kilohertz) and textures map transformation. In this last case, as in normal photos, sampling rate refers to the resolution of the image (often measured in pixel per inch). Digitizing is the primary way of storing images in a form suitable for transmission and computer processing.

Digitizing is making a digital representation of geographical features within a raster image or vector using a geographic information system, i.e, the creation of electronic maps, either from various geographical imagery or by digitizing the traditional paper maps.

Since the advent of digital video the term continues to be frequently used, as of 2005, to refer to the process of importing footage into a computer via a FireWire cable. But this is not technically accurate, as the footage is already digital, so it is not really being digitized, but rather encoded into whatever format the non-linear video editing software uses.[citation needed]

"Digitization" is also used to describe the process of populating databases with files or data. While this usage is technically inaccurate, it originates for the previously-proper use of the term to describe the part of the process which involved converting the analog sources (printed pictures, printed brochures, etc.) into the digital representation before uploading to the target database(s).

Digitizing is also used in the field of apparel where an image is recreated by artists with the help of embroidery digitizing software tools and saved as embroidery machine code. This machine code is fed into an embroidery machine and embroidered onto apparels. The most supported format is DST file.

Digitizing also refers to the process of acquiring precise dimensions from a real world object, such as a car, using a CMM (Computer-Aided Manufacturing Measurement) device.[4]. Common digitization methods include optical 3d (laser) scanners as well.