Digitalization

Digitization (US), digitisation (UK) is converting information into a digital (computer-readable) form. In this way, the information is organized into bits.[1][2]

The data is put in the form of binary numbers. This helps computer processing. The meaning of digitizing is the conversion of analog source material into a numerical format.

References
  1. Definition of digitization at WhatIs.com
  2. "Digitization/digitisation" in Collins English Dictionary
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