Data can be in the form of a love letter you wrote, or a voice recording you for your family. It could consist of the photographs from your childhood. All of these can be easily lost or destroyed. But they can be preserved by converting them into a digital form through digitization.
Digitization is the process of scanning and converting physical information — such as paper documents, photographs, or sound — into digital form (bits and bytes) that can then be stored and processed by a computer.
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