The client is a resource centre, based at an Institute of Education and houses three of Britain's internationally-renowned birth cohort studies.

These studies involve multiple surveys of large numbers of individuals from birth throughout their lives. The client has collected information on education and employment, family and parenting, physical and mental health, and social attitudes. As the studies are longitudinal studies that follow the same groups of people throughout their lives, they show how histories of health, wealth, education, family and employment are interwoven for individuals, and how that varies from time to time at every stage of life.

By comparing the different generations in the three cohorts, the client charts social changes and untangles the reasons behind it. Findings from these studies are contributing and have contributed in the past to the debates and enquiries in a number of policy areas over the last half-century including education and equality of opportunity, poverty and social exclusion, gender differences in pay and employment; social class differences in health, changing family structures and anti-social behavior. All these study materials are in the form of Microfiche and Paper documents.

The client required all the above data to be captured in such a form that it could be made available online in the form of research material and statistics for further scientific studies, along with the support and production facilities to scan a body of material in documentary form.

The study material was organized in three separate collections and each collection consisted of series of surveys, each survey gathered information about group of individuals. The study material was highly complicated as there was a lot of input and collection of data which had to be correlated by sequences. Also it had a mix of supportive documents which were not in order. A single longitudinal survey belonging to one individual had to be captured in an organized and sequential manner. The final output was in the form of indexed PDF file comprising of scanned images.

We handled these documents in client specific secure area to maintain confidentiality. The client provided us with 16/32 mm microfilms which contained these documents. The microfilms were scanned on a microfilm scanner, and we setup the process to clean and de-skew the images and recreated the documents. Every document had an ID number by which an individual can be tracked. We masked these ID numbers with own internally generated codes to make the document secure at the first level. A custom designed process was created by which such sensitive information was identified and blanked out.

We have successfully delivered a large volume of electronic documents by black stripping them of such sensitive information. The County now publishes this information on the Internet.

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