>>"I am curios: what type of challenge your friend is facing so that he/she is >>considering a non-scanner solution?"
I don't know, perhaps the pages are not removable and you can't lay them flat? On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't have first-hand expertise with this. > From what I've read, - most (if not all?) document archives/libraries are > using scanners rather than photo cameras for this purpose these days. > > Obviously, there are different types of scanners. > Typically, flatbed scanners are used for scanning fragile materials. > There are some large flatbed scanners, and I suspect there could be some > that have provision for stitching very large scans. > I've seen some references to handheld/wand type of scanners (I was rather > surprised by that); I am guessing those could be used in case on sources > that are too curved or falling apart. > > Some companies that offer document scanning (including that for fragile > documents and books) are bragging about custom-built specialized scanners. > > > I am curios: what type of challenge your friend is facing so that he/she is > considering a non-scanner solution? > > Igor > > > Gonz Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:26:00 -0800 wrote: > > A friend asked me this and I didn't have an answer, perhaps someone on > the list has heard of this before? > > > "I was wondering if you know anything about document cameras (i.e. > rigs to photograph a large number of pages as an alternative to > scanning). The idea is to use such a thing to convert many pages of > music charts into electronic form. Any suggestions? Thanks." > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- Reduce your Government Footprint -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
