Interesting DIY project using simple, consumer-grade cameras and an ingenious box frame to hold them. The project website is at www.bookliberator.com. According to their blog, they will be using two pieces of free software: scantailor for post-processing and djvubind for OCR, metadata and conversion to the djvu format.
Tag Archives: digitization
BookLiberator
28-Sep-10Bookmark: Decapod Project
27-May-10Decapod is an interesting project with partners from Germany, Canada, and Anarbor, MI and funded through The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. From the site: The solution will address these problem areas: Allow the camera based capture of bound material by using computer vision techniques to produce flat, clean page images equivalent to those produced from [...]
2010 Northwest Archivists Presentation
10-May-10Here are the slides from my recent presentation at the 2010 Northwest Archivists conference in April. This tells of the technical and “mindset” decisions we made for our 2009 digitization project at the National Archives. Great experience in Seattle, I’m glad I attended.
DIY Portable Copy Stand
15-Oct-09Very cool do it yourself project from Instructables.com:
What’s the most efficient method for nearly choking a small digitization shop? Success. That’s something we’re experiencing at The University of Montana and we couldn’t be happier.
Scanned Master Files Compared
08-Jul-09Here’s a quick chart that specifies the amount of disk space a single scanned 8.5″ x 11″ master file will take up.
The fading costs of content
09-Jun-09The recent discussions about newspapers has got me thinking about the history, and costs, of information. Recently we just digitized a rather large collection of microfilm and are getting it ready to publish it on the library’s website.
Review: Scanning Negatives and Slides
11-May-09This book is a valuable addition to the field of digitizing negatives and slides. It covers a wide range of topics, including hardware considerations (from scanners and digital SLR cameras to flatbed and specialized film scanners); readers will also find a nice overview, with workflows, of image capture and editing software.
Instructables Book Ripper
21-Apr-09This Instructables set by Daniel Reetz is an exciting hack. He lays out a plan for building a two-camera book scanner with V-shaped platen.
Archive: Photoshop CS4 books reviewed
12-Apr-09I’m archiving this book review, originally found at The Tech Static: