digitize

• digitise, digitilize

digit +‎ -ize

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtaɪz/

digitize (third-person singular simple present digitizes, present participle digitizing, simple past and past participle digitized)

1. (transitive, computing) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.

   Synonym: (less common) digitalize

   • 2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, Fundamental Photoshop 5.5, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 302:

     When you digitize a visual image, you are translating it into digital signals so that it can be broken down into pixels and loaded into the computer.

   • 2013, Nihar K. Patra, editor, Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 187:

     According to press releases and university librarians, Google plans to digitize and make available through its Google Books service approximately 15 million volumes within a decade.

2. To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To finger.

   to digitize a pen

• digitized target

• digitization

• datafy