Specifications include, but are not limited to: The University of. South Carolina (UofSC) is seeking qualified vendors to digitize 100,000 newspaper pages from microfilm. Contractor must digitize 100,000 newspaper pages from microfilm creating the following derivative files, and complete corresponding XML for each issue; Over the course of 2 years the Contractor must digitize 100,000 newspaper pages from microfilm. The Contractor must create the following derivative files and corresponding XML for each issue for the project: 1) Grayscale, scanned for maximum resolution possible between 300-400 dpi, relative to the original material, uncompressed TIFF 6.0; 2) Same image, compressed as JPEG2000; 3) OCR text and associated bounding boxes for words