You have also KIRTAS, 4DigitlaBooks, Qidenus, Treventus. Karim Boughida >>> Rob Lancefield on lists <lists at lancefield.net> 2008-03-20 07:31 >>> Perian, Sue, and all,
...and by coincidence, yesterday Wired posted an annotated, play-by-play slide show of the Internet Archive's book-scanning process online at: <http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_internet_archive> Rob Perian Sully wrote: > Hi Sue: > > The Internet Archive has a number of scanners that they loan out to > institutions, complete with support and software and the like. When I > met with them, they also suggested partnering with other institutions or > contacting those with one of their scanners already installed. > > After scouring Google some more, I finally found the product I was > remembering: http://booksnap.atiz.com/ It's a $2000 book cradle (though > you'd also have to get two cameras along with it). It comes with the > software to output the images to PDF and also has OCR software built in. > A far less expensive solution than the $30,000 on up scanners I've seen. > Granted, this one doesn't have automatic page turning capability, but > since many of our books are incredibly old and fragile, we wouldn't want > the automatic turning anyway. > > Best, > > Perian Sully > Collection Information and New Media Coordinator > Judah L. Magnes Museum > > > -----Original Message----- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of > Sue Grinols > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:11 PM > To: Museum Computer Network Listserv > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Book scanners? > > Hi Perian, > > I think Brewster Kahle was using some sort of a system he developed for > the > Internet Archive that ended up being inexpensive to use - probably > because > of volume.. . > > I'd be curious to know of any other scanners or systems people have had > luck > with. > > Thanks, Sue -- ______________________________________________ Rob Lancefield (rlancefield [at] wesleyan.edu) Manager of Museum Information Services / Registrar of Collections Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459-0487 USA 860.685.2965 Vice President / President-Elect, Museum Computer Network (MCN) _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
