Kisters - Chart Digitisation Services Software
Transform paper records into digital, accessible data for streamlined analysis. Enjoy a range of benefits when you use our paper chart digitisation service. We understand just how important it is to preserve historic hydrometeorological observations that were created using paper charts. Our digitisation services allow us to convert your old environmental paper records into digital and shareable formats – freeing you for more storage, giving you easy access to these records from anywhere and protecting the longevity of these vital records over time.
From scanning the charts, identifying the information drawn on them, correcting suspicious values, and filling data gaps – our digitisation service does it all for you. Plus, we make sure that what was recorded on paper will be available to you in your favourite data management system.
F&J - Gain better insights from your historical data
Gain greater insights through the digitisation of historic hydrometeorological observations as the technology behind the digitisation of paper records allows you to view newer observations and insights.
Avoid losing data records and minimise storage costs
Digitising paper charts preserves the recorded observations for the long haul and allows you to easily access and process in digital format, while minimising or avoiding storage costs.
We’ll do it for you
At KISTERS we offer an end-to-end data digitisation service, from collecting your paper charts to providing you with validated data right in the digital format you prefer.
Effective data validation
We use trusted automatic algorithms and manual checks to find and manage the digitised data for outliers, repetitions, and data gaps – This means your data remains as effective and accurate as possible
Manage data all in one place
Once digitised, you can manage, prove, and analyse your now digitised historical data in one place – one of our trusted data management solutions which saves you time and effort in having to manage multiple sources.
With our help, digitising your paper records is a straightforward process:
- Inventory your paper charts
- We’ll pick them up and then scan them
- Our AI identifies the recorded data
- Our automatic validation assesses data quality
- Your ‘new’ historic data - gone digital - is ready
- Scanning of large quantities of charts
- Scanning of large quantities of charts
- We can efficiently scan thousands of paper charts of various formats, even if they are meters long.
- Automated identification of the recorded data
- Automated identification of the recorded data
- Our AI-supported identification scheme reads the records right from the scans.
- Effective data validation
- Effective data validation
- We identify suspicious or missing data for you and can correct it as well.
- Review your data against the paper charts
- Review your data against the paper charts
- Compare the digital data with the scans using our handy online tool and gain confidence in the results.
- Manage the data straight from inside KISTERS software