digitizing

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.
   • 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.2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, Fundamental Photoshop 5.5, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 302

   Synonyms:

   digitalize

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