Editing Digitization (section)

== History ==

* 1957 The Standards Electronic Automatic Computer (SEAC) was invented.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=What is the History of Digitization? |url=https://kodakdigitizing.com/blogs/news/what-is-the-history-of-digitization |access-date=2023-04-14 |website=Kodak Digitizing}}</ref> That same year, [[Russell Kirsch]] used a rotating drum scanner and photomultiplier connected to SEAC to create the first digital image (176x176 pixels) from a photo of his infant son.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last= |first= |title=Square Pixel Inventor Tries to Smooth Things Out |language=en-US |magazine=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/2010/06/smoothing-square-pixels/ |access-date=2023-04-14 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |title=Page 1 |url=https://nistdigitalarchives.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15421coll5/id/1386 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=nistdigitalarchives.contentdm.oclc.org |language=en}}</ref> This image was stored in SEAC memory via a staticizer and viewed via a cathode ray oscilloscope.<ref>Kirsch, R. A. (1988). Earliest image processing. ''IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 20''(2). https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821701</ref><ref name=":7" />
* 1971 Invention of Charge-Coupled Devices that made conversion from analog data to a digital format easy.<ref name=":6" />
* 1986 work started on the [[JPEG]] format.<ref name=":6" />
* 1990s Libraries began scanning collections to provide access via the world wide web.<ref name=":922"/>