Abstract
Document digitization is the process of converting information into a digital format, that is the computer-readable format. Traditionally way of handling documents is challenging and has a lot of disadvantages for people. Due to the increase of the number of people using the internet and smartphone in Tanzania where the number of mobile subscribers in Tanzania has raised to 42% of the population subscribing to mobile service in 2018, this makes it easy for people to adapt to the technology. Famous digital scanner technology most have limitations which include digital advertisement, also have limited features which require to pay the extra money and have watermarks which reduce the sense of ownership of the document. To create a competitive advantage we have used experimental procedure to find the validity of our application and through observation of other document digitization application to get valid primary data. Despite the presence of other document digitization applications, most features are limited, paid, and possess advertisement which may cause discomfort to users. There are different kinds of application developed in android phones which help people digitize their documents easily. In this project work, a mobile application is developed for digital scanning and converting the documents in PDF format, extracting text from the images, wireless printing ability, and sharing the documents into social media. Through this application, users will experience a lightweight document digitization application compared to other applications, a resource utilized application, and enhanced limited functionalities from other applications.
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We would like to thank God Almighty for His grace and blessings of life which helped us to conduct this work, also we would like to extend our special thanks to the Centre of Excellence for ICT in East Africa (CENIT@EA) for contributing to capacity building through knowledge building and financial support to develop our android application and our supervisor Dr. Dina Machuve for providing us the project title and guidance to our work. We are thankful to all our classmates, friends, and instructors from the School of Computational and Communication Science and Engineering (CoCSE) for their valuable assistance and mentorship during this period of our study.
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John, M., Mbunda, B., Willa, V., Mduma, N., Machuve, D., Kaijage, S. (2022). Document Digitization Technology and Its Application in Tanzania. In: Arai, K. (eds) Intelligent Systems and Applications. IntelliSys 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 295. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82196-8_53
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