digitize
verb
dig·i·tize
ˈdi-jə-ˌtīz 
digitized; digitizing
: to convert (something, such as data or an image) to digital form
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The record company digitized the songs and made them available on the Internet.
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Our real estate data comes from public records that have been registered and digitized by local county offices.
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Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Co-curator and Ruocco archivist Todd Pitman provided us with truly remarkable color film footage — now digitized — of the Design Center site and building under construction in 1949.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2025
The first step in making the documentary was digitizing all of the personal footage and stringing it out before even interviewing the family.
—Evan Burke, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025
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Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
Co-curator and Ruocco archivist Todd Pitman provided us with truly remarkable color film footage — now digitized — of the Design Center site and building under construction in 1949.
—Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Furthermore, when colonizers attempted to burn all evidence of Nkrumah’s time as a revolutionary leader, Hesse snuck his reels out of Ghana, and into a London vault, where the footage has spent decades inside, waiting to be digitized.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2025
The first step in making the documentary was digitizing all of the personal footage and stringing it out before even interviewing the family.
—Evan Burke, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for digitize
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“Digitize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/digitize. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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digitize
verb
dig·i·tize
ˈdij-ə-ˌtīz
digitized; digitizing
: to change (as data or an image) to digital form
digitizer
noun
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