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I have just drafted a brief project description and send it to ASD for review. Here is the draft:

Advanced Software Development has its strong presence in the market of media archiving solutions since 2003. Since its inception, ASD is trying to improve its processes to meet clients' need more efficiently and effectively. In this continuation, ASD has undertaken a project to re-engineer its processes so that it will use its resources more effectively.

The media archiving solution has different automatic and manual processes. A daily schedule starts while 10/12 operators enter the office at 7 am. They take the newspapers and search the news items they are interested about. Then the news locations are marked. Then they get the pages scanned and start working on the electronic copies of the newspapers. They cut the news in rectangular blocks from the files and save them as separate images. Then, they tag them with the news title and customer info and upload them on the database.

The whole process takes almost 10/12 operators working for 8 hours a day. ASD likes to convert it into a software handled process which will reduce the number of operators. It requires OCR and pattern recognition modules along with standard software engineering solutions. The whole project will be done in two steps. Firstly, in Phase I, the algorithmic and software engineering issues should be solved. This phase will be mostly done on pen and paper. The second phase will contain most of the coding and testing part.