Rescue content from damaged media or from damaged hardware and software An emergency recovery strategy involves
specialized techniques to recover data from unreadable media, either due to physical damage or hardware failure.
Carried out by
data recovery companies
Given enough resources, readable
bit-
streams can often be recovered even from heavily damaged media (especially mag- netic media)
CONCLUSION
Digital conversion of documents is a worldwide phenomenon. The easy portability and data backup of digital documents are two important driving forces for it. The important challenges in this direction are technological changes, redundancy of information, data integrity, statutory status and digital storage of documents. It is important to decide upon different organization policies before going for digitization of documents.
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