Kirtas

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Growing At The Speed Of Information

Books to Bytes

Beginning With An Idea

Kirtas Technologies Inc is not only the world leader in digitization but one of the fastest growing companies in the field.

The Organization began at Venture Lab at the Xerox Corporation, where Dr. Lotfi Belkhir did extensive work assessing the need and prospects of a truly automated book scanner to facilitate the transfer of data locked in bound documents into digital form.

After a successful proof of concept, Dr. Belkhir was able to obtain an exclusive license to the page-turning technology he helped develop. He decided to develop a new company to create and offer to the world the new technology that was now possible.

From Local To Global

Since then Kirtas Technologies has grown at an astonishing pace. From less than a dozen individuals in 2006, the firm has grown into an organization of roughly 75 scientists, engineers, manufacturers, marketers, and employees.

The firm's offices in the Upstate New York town of Victor have grown at a rapid pace, and along with the company, an ever-growing number of service bureaus and resellers are helping to make Kirtas's offerings available to clients and institutions around the world.

And in January 2008, the organization recently launched a European branch, Kirtas Europe, based in the Netherlands and serving the entire European Community.

Gaining World Attention

The organization has already served some of the most prestigious libraries, businesses, and governments in the world, from Microsoft to Yale University to LexisNexis, and its equipment has been used and celebrated by institutions ranging from the Toronto Public Library to the University of Tokyo and the British Library.

The firm has been celebrated by news profiles in Forbes, Yahoo, the Guardian, Print Week, USA Today, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other newspapers magazines, and television and Internet news programs. In 2004, Kirtas along with Apple, AMD, Motorola and Google was a finalist for the World Technology Network IT Hardware award. In 2003 Kirtas received the "Best of What's New" award from Popular Science as one of the world's 100 most important innovations.

Regularly appearing at trade shows and exhibitions, Kirtas has become the global leader enabling the massive, rapid and cost-effective transfer of knowledge from books to bytes.

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