Hi! Just tried this Sunday...
6MP digital SLR camera + tripod is good enough to make images of book pages for OCR. Speed is ~ 10-15 seconds per page. However, if you want good quality images, you should use regular scanner, adjust page position, press book. Eugene. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Andrew Turvey<[email protected]> wrote: > We had a discussion at a recent Wikimedia UK board meeting about potentially > buying some digitisation equipment which could be used to generate content > for the Wikimedia projects. This recent email to the EN-WP list sparked my > interest. > > Does anyone have any experience with equipment like this, and could you > recommend anything? Any idea what the price range and quality typically is? > > Also, is anyone else in the Wikimedia community currently doing this? > > Thanks, > > ---- Forwarded Message ----- > From: "Steve Bennett" <[email protected]> > To: "English Wikipedia" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, 23 August, 2009 10:55:32 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, > Portugal > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia reaches 3 millionth article > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:15 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: >> I believe they have machines to turn pages, and something to figure >> out the distorted photo of the book and render it how it would look as >> a flat page. > > Yeah, there are videos of these machines. The book sits open, the > scanner comes down and scans both open pages at once. As it goes up > again, it sucks on one page, causing it to flip over. Then repeat. > > Oh, look, here you go: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlOQuuLYavY > > And while we're at it: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l > > _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
