We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully.

We will not e-mail you in the future unless you have given us your consent.

We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent.

The personal information which we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law.

CCS does not sell or transfer any information regarding our clients to any third party.

We may use technology to track the patterns of behavior of visitors to our site. This can include using a "cookie" which would be stored on your browser. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this happening. The information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you modify your browser settings.

If you have any questions about privacy, you should contact us.

Quality assurance of software development, sales and services, that enable libraries, archives, publisher, press offices and service provider to convert information from historical and contemporary documents into digital accessible and marketable products.

 ISO Certificate

CSS is one of the global leaders in making information accessible through digitization and conversion. The business segments are technology and services.
Our Hamburg based company employs people in Germany, England, Romania and the USA. We also have a research facility at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.

CCS is a member of the METS- and ALTO boards, which are both committed to creating a standard for XML meta data in document digitization, and are maintained by the Library of Congress (LC). We have held the role of partner and software developer in the METAe project of the European Union, and partners for the National Digital
Newspaper Program (NDNP), a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and LC program.

As a member of the Association of Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC) we develop our technologies in close collaboration with distinguished experts in our industry.

Sales, software development and services are all ISO 9001 certified at CCS.

Technology

CCS develops software solutions to automate digitization processes for digital press reviews, media monitoring, digital libraries and long term preservation/accessibility.
Besides developing hi-tech products in house, CCS enriches its product portfolio with acquisitions and strategic partnerships, so that today we are able to satisfy any request from clients including vendors, endusers and customers.

Services

CCS provides experts, infrastructure and IT systems and manages industrial
digitization projects. With these services, CCS renders quality assured digitization –careful handling of rare materials– practicable for public bodies and content owners/resellers, and allows for commercial profit to be achieved with the surrogate documents and their contents.

METS

ALTO

AMEC

Disclaimer of liabilities

Contents of the Online offer
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Privacy
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Legal validity of the present disclaimer of liabilities
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Responsible for Content:

CCS Content Conversion Specialists GmbH
Weidestrasse 134
D-22083 Hamburg (Germany)
Homepage: www.content-conversion.com

Tel.: +49 (0)40/227130-0
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Company head office: Hamburg (Germany)
Place of jurisdiction: Hamburg HRB 181 82
Value added tax identification number: DE118644043

Represented by: Daniel Lanz  (Managing Director)

Dear customer, dear business partner, dear reader

the history of CCS begins more than 35 years ago. It is 1975 when Raymond Kurzweil invents a machine that for the first time enables the blind and visually impaired to read normal texts. Its center piece is a newly developed OCR program by Kurzweil, that is not limited to a handful of invidual fonts, but is able to recognize and distinguishe all common fonts. To give this system a meaningful benefit to society, Kurzweil also develops the world’s first flat bed scanner and an innovative text to speech output. The blind are now able to put any book or newspaper on the scanner and the machine reads it aloud. Stevie Wonder purchases the first machine – and later develops the first music synthesizer with Kurzweil.
To this day, the Kurzweil Reading Machine is besides Braille the biggest milestone in the social integration of the blind.
The first distributor of the Kurzweil Reading Machine in Europe is CCS. The idea of making knowledge accessible to all is still an integral part of our corporate philosophy.

Today, CCS provides software solutions to digitize and convert valuable library and archival material for long term preservation, easy access and better searchability (docWorks).
Multi million page digitization projects are very challenging in technological and logistical ways. Based on its technical know-how and long time expertise, CCS also offers a customized service to ensure a smooth and economical scanning and conversion process (digitizationServices).
Our clients’ confidence in our operation and the quality of our products and services are very important to us. We are therefore very pleased to work with such prestigous clients as the Library of Congress, the national libraries of Britain, Finland, Australia, Luxembourg, Singapore and Norway, the universities of Harvard and Stanford and the publishers of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Axel Springer.

In addition to the digitization and conversion of printed works, software solutions for digital press clipping and digital press review are the second specialization of CCS (newsWorks). Here again, the goal is to filter out the relevant news and to make them instantly and easily accessible. Our clients are international companies, public relations and market research agencies as well as most federal German ministries.

On the following pages we want to give you an insight into our products and services. Our goal is to offer the best technology Made in Germany, but also to be human in that we listen, learn and support you. We make your wishes and requirements our business and seek (and find) the best solution.

Sincerely,
Daniel Lanz

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The Process of digitization