What Is Digitize?

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If you're looking to take your analog life and make it digital, you've come to the right place. It's time to start digitizing! What do you say? Do you not know what digitize is and what it is all about? Even if you were living under a rock all this time, we would tell you this once, Ok! The digital age is here, and we've got the perfect word to describe it: digitization. When digitizing, you convert a physical object or idea into a series of discrete points or samples. An excellent example is scanning physical photographs to convert them into digital images that can be easily manipulated. Recording the music of artists and bands inside a studio into a raw digital form, again for easy manipulation and alteration, is another perfect example of digitization. If you've ever heard the phrase "binary code" before, you've probably been confused. We all know that computers work with binary code, but what does that mean? Digitizing information means converting it into binary code, a series of ones and zeroes. The most common way to digitize information is by scanning it into your computer or smartphone. Still, other ways exist, like taking a picture with your phone or recording audio through a microphone. The method you use depends on the signal being digitized. For example, a scanner or digital camera can quickly digitize text and images. Sounds are digitized by sampling their values at regular intervals and then assigning those values to corresponding numbers. Physical phenomena like heat and pressure can be digitized using an analog-to-digital conversion algorithm. Analog-to-digital conversion involves sampling the desired physical phenomenon at regular intervals and assigning those values to corresponding numbers. These numbers are then sent to a computer and converted into binary code.

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