Comments on: How do books get digitized? This is how. http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/12/how-do-books-get-digitized-this-is-how/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: HeavyG http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/12/how-do-books-get-digitized-this-is-how/comment-page-1/#comment-1012041 HeavyG Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:53:30 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=16837#comment-1012041 Check this out: http://diy.atiz.com/ I nearly bought one a year or so ago. It's pretty reasonably priced ($2K +/- as I recall). Also they sell software called "Snapter" which allows any digital camera to provide images that can be converted to appear as scanned documents. It works pretty well and if one only has a few books they want to convert it is an option. Cutting the spine off of books is one thing but there are lots of documents that are to big (e.g. newspapers) to be fed via sheet fed scanners or are just too delicate to take a chance being fed that way. Check this out: http://diy.atiz.com/

I nearly bought one a year or so ago. It’s pretty reasonably priced ($2K +/- as I recall). Also they sell software called “Snapter” which allows any digital camera to provide images that can be converted to appear as scanned documents. It works pretty well and if one only has a few books they want to convert it is an option.

Cutting the spine off of books is one thing but there are lots of documents that are to big (e.g. newspapers) to be fed via sheet fed scanners or are just too delicate to take a chance being fed that way.

]]> By: Bob Martinengo http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/12/how-do-books-get-digitized-this-is-how/comment-page-1/#comment-1011981 Bob Martinengo Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:18:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=16837#comment-1011981 You know, its a lot simpler to cut the spine off a book and feed it through a sheet-fed scanner like the Canon 9080c (which sells for ~$6k). This big gizmo is for high-end library conservation projects where the book must remain intact. You know, its a lot simpler to cut the spine off a book and feed it through a sheet-fed scanner like the Canon 9080c (which sells for ~$6k). This big gizmo is for high-end library conservation projects where the book must remain intact.

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