Dear Paul Ell,
I've been thinking about dealing with this 'difficult' historical material
you mentioned in your e-mail and I wonder why not try to scan available
(b/w) photographs or high resolution (b/w) printouts of microfilm?
Alternatively, you can edit your photographs in Photoshop to improve
printer output. I have been doing that with texts on large Egyptian and
Roman pillars and stones which obviously can't be scanned on a flat bed
scanner.
Note:
I write '(b/w)' because my experience is that black and white material can
be scanned with more accuracy than full-colour.
Yours sincerely,
Jeroen van der Vliet
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From: Dr Paul S. Ell [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 12:18 PM
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Subject: Book page and microfilm scanners
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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Director
The Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis
School of Sociology and Social Policy
The Queen's University of Belfast
Belfast
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