“Digitize” or “Digitise”—What's the difference?

Usage by country

Where each spelling is used

Of the 12 countries below, 5 prefer “digitize” and 4 prefer “digitise”. Usage levels are out of 100; the more common spelling in each country is in bold.

Usage level out of 100 (if available).
Country	digitize	digitise	Preference
United States	99	1	“digitize”
United Kingdom	39	61	“digitise”
India	93	7	“digitize”
Philippines	100	0	“digitize”
Canada	98	2	“digitize”
Australia	38	62	“digitise”
Liberia	0	0	Not enough data
Ireland	48	52	“digitise”
New Zealand	39	61	“digitise”
Jamaica	100	0	“digitize”
Trinidad & Tobago	0	0	Not enough data
Guyana	0	0	Not enough data

Usage

Examples in context

Real sentences for each spelling. Hover an example to copy it.

“digitize”

Hall, Gary (2008) Digitize this book!
…collect all 20 volumes and digitize them as a lasting reference.
…science-fiction often include the term digitize as the act of transforming…
…taken over 50 years to digitize the plates in the Harvard…
…Program Citizen science program to digitize bird phenology records
…a software design pattern to digitize documents and have them participate…
Namely; Educate Ghana, Heal Ghana, Digitize Ghana, Feed Ghana, Revenue Ghana,…
White-light or laser scanners accurately digitize objects all around, capturing fine…
…again started in 2009 to digitize the collection of records and…
…intermediaries and facilitators, and to digitize all forms and formats of…

“digitise”

…for a pilot project to digitise a selection of cassette tapes…
…the decision to remaster and digitise was made after observing the…
…itself, the archive could only digitise 1,000 - 1,500 Betacam titles…
…of Northern Ireland (PRONI), to digitise the complete set of historical…
…led a multimillion-pound project to digitise information systems at Network Rail.
…driven touch probes used to digitise clay models in computer animation
…is a major project to digitise and publish primary and secondary…
…EFG1914, is a project to digitise a substantial number of wartime…
Digitise and interpret geologic cross section
…a publicly funded project to digitise the “Jewish Periodicals in Nazi…

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