Made in Germany | CCS digitizes the British Library

Most of this world's knowledge is still deposited in books. So far the digital revolution has reached only a fraction of what centuries of writers put to paper. Now, London's hallowed British Library wants to change that - for conservational reasons.

The Library's oldest and most precious books are in danger of decomposing. That's why nobody's been allowed to open, let alone borrow them for a long time. The problem could be solved by digitízing the historic volume's content and making it available online. The Hamburgb hi-tech company CCS won the contract. Over the next two years, it will electronically store an astounding 25 million pages of the library's collections and - together with Microsoft - post them online. Now, a whole battery of high-performance scanners has been running day and night in the London library. MiG reporter Patrick Benning got a chance to follow the "content conversion specialists" in their painstaking and exhilarating work.

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