Nearly every digital library has best practices for scanning, as do many library organizations. Just plug "digital library scanning" into any search engine and you'll have more than you want to know.
Unless you have the appropriate equipment, including OCR software, your digital scan will not be terribly usable. You haven't said what you would be scanning, but book scanning requires special software to correct the curvature of the pages and to keep the images in focus. It's not really a DIY operation, unless you are doing it only for your own use. OCR is essential, although it can be a separate step. And that's about all I know. kc On 3/31/13 11:17 AM, [email protected] wrote: > On Sunday, March 31, 2013 11:06:13 AM you wrote: > > > Having said that, the digitization is the hard part (at least to do it > > > right), not the storage. You can store it on one and move it to the other > > > if the first fails, store it on both, store it additional places besides > > > these two, etc. > > K. Am I best to scan them as PDF? > > Of course they would be images, and I know it would be best to OCR for > some kind of underlying text layer, but I doubt I have the tools for > that in Linux. Any suggestions? > > (I tried to post this to -discussions, but it was rejected) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] > -- Karen Coyle [email protected] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
