Hi!
The National Library of Congress and several other places use a high
resolution digital camera we helped develop. It gives around 10kx10k max
resolution and excellent colour accuracy. Certainly better quality than
microfilming first. Contact me if you'd like details.
Typical images from a MARC camera are available online at:
http://ernie.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~km/iipdemos/
see the Zepler portrait - not a manuscript I'm afraid but you'll get the
idea. Lots of the others were taken with an old Progres camera.
Kirk Martinez
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~km
At 11:17 07/01/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Dear All,
> The Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis has
>considerable experience in the OCR'ing of 'difficult' historical
>material ranging from numbers in nineteenth-century census
>volumes to a complex dictionary of lowland Scots.
> We are now beginning to digitise material which is in a
>delicate state and cannot be placed on a flatbed scanner. For
>much material we wish to use a book page scanner but some
>material is so precious that we only have copies of it on
>microfilm. Consequently we intend to purchase a book page
>scanner and a microfilm scanner.
> I wonder if members of the list have experience of using
>this equipment and could recommend hardware?
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Paul
>Listowner
>
>PS Best wishes for 2000. Over the holidays the list recruited
>its 500th member (now 503) making it by far the most popular
>history list at mailbase.
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