Eiteksti

Eiteksti is a term used to refer to text that exists in digital form rather than printed on paper. In everyday usage, it encompasses a range of textual data stored and processed by computers, smartphones, and other digital devices. The concept contrasts with traditional printed text, though digital texts can be printed if needed.

Encoding and formats: Text in electronic form relies on character encoding systems such as Unicode (UTF-8). Common eiteksti formats include plain text (TXT), markup languages (HTML, XML), rich text formats (RTF, DOCX), and portable formats (PDF, EPUB).

Applications: Eiteksti is central to digital publishing, web content, emails, messaging, and data processing. It enables search, indexing, auditing, hyperlinks, and machine readability, supporting natural language processing and data mining.

Accessibility and preservation: Proper encoding and markup support accessibility via screen readers, captions, and semantic structure. Digital preservation involves format migration, metadata, backups, and checksums.

Challenges: Licensing and copyright, version control, data integrity, obsolescence of file formats, and the need for standardization to ensure long-term interoperability.