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Polk schools consider digitizing brittle historic records after storm damage
Summary
District staff and vendor Cofile (Kodak subsidiary) presented a plan to scan and OCR historic board minutes and other records after hurricane-related moisture damaged paper archives; board members asked about ownership, security, retention schedules and costs.
Polk County School District staff and vendor Cofile Technologies outlined a plan July 29 to digitize and preserve decades of paper minutes and other official records after several sets of bound minutes developed mold and mildew following storm damage.
Cofile representative Trey Sissom told the school board the district holds unique, brittle records — some the only copy — stored in climate-controlled cabinets but damaged over time. He said digitization with high-resolution capture and optical character recognition (OCR) would make the materials searchable and available for legal…
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