ECS Digitizes Past Issues of Local Newspaper for Town of Yountville

“The Town of Yountville recently announced the completion of a project to digitally scan every issue of the Yountville Sun, from its May 14, 1998, debut through 2022. Internet users can now visit a page on the Town’s website to view the paper page by page”, users can also type in keywords to search for a particular story.

“ECS Imaging Inc. of Riverside received back issues of the Sun that Michelle Dahme, a former Yountville town clerk, had stored in half a dozen “banker’s boxes” of heavy cardboard. A scanner captured images of printed pages, and optical character recognition software” (Laserfiche Document Management) “converted printed words into electronic text that can be searched on a computer or smartphone. Users can zoom into and out of pages, search for issues by date, and type in keywords to find text passages.”

“Scanning and conversion took six months and was completed in June, Yountville’s web page hosting the Sun archive went live July 20. The town staff plans to add newer issues of the Sun to the virtual archive about twice a year.”

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Navigate to the Town’s Weblink Public Portal and Browse Issues of the Yountville Sun