Digitization is the process of converting physical or analog information into digital form. This includes converting documents, audio files, images, video, and other data formats into digital formats for storage, transmission, and processing. Digitization typically involves scanning physical documents into an image file format and then transforming that image file into text, audio, or video. Digitization also involves compressing data, recording audio and video into digital formats, extracting data from photos and videos, and manipulating digital objects.