Definition of digitize | Bee Dictionary of English

v put into digital form, as for use in a computer
he bought a device to digitize the data

But you can't search the text of a book using the Sony Reader, and that's a disappointment, since searchability is one of the main reasons to digitize a book in the first place.
Doctors and health officials in Pittsburgh are also on board to digitize the city's medical practices.
Instead of using traditional "circuit switched" phone networks, which utilize a dedicated connection between callers, companies can digitize sound waves, divide them into .

YMC Museum sets genealogical precedent
Eighteen months and 13,000 lines of data-input later and Yellow Medicine County Museum Director Brian Schulz's crusade to digitize all county birth records from 1870 to 1908 is complete.Made possible by a $18,000 Minnesota Historical Society grant that funded Schulz's data entry as well as the mileage for two volunteer pr...
June 13, 2013 - Advocate Tribune
Inventors: Digital license plates could save millions of dollars
Columbia inventors want to update one of the oldest forms of identification still in use: the license plate. They want to digitize them and think their invention could save the state hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid registration fees.
June 12, 2013 - FOX 19 Cincinnati
Inventors: Digital license plates could save millions
Columbia inventors want to update one of the oldest forms of identification still in use: the license plate. They want to digitize them and think their invention could save the state hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid registration fees.
June 12, 2013 - WSFA 12 Montgomery

Larry Page in HardwareGeeks.com (press release)
They're going faster and faster and faster here at the Library of Congress to bring the book collection, to digitize those, run them through optical character recognition, offer them for free on the Internet for anyone to download, read, bind, do... Brewster Kahle http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNECp8xJB2j8iTz82Dd6y2bpT9Kp9Q Voice of America http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.voanews.com/english/Science/2009-01-23-voa29.cfm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFFRzvmovOM8nmKzVRfEvyCyXz3iw Jan 23, 2009 27654 36584 digitize Today we're pleased to announce this program to digitize the collections of these amazing libraries so that every Google user can search them instantly. Our work with libraries further enhances the existing Google Print program, which enables users...
Robert Darnton in Los Angeles Times
To digitize collections and sell products in ways that fail to guarantee wide access ...... would turn the Internet into an instrument for privatizing knowledge that belongs in the public sphere,Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard...