Not exactly what you're looking for, but this may still be of interest:
A couple of years ago I digitised an Irish-English dictionary which had been
compiled by my grandfather. The manuscript consisted of about 40,000
hand-written pieces of paper, each about the size of a compliment slip.. I
had them all microfilmed and we then scanned the film. This had the
advantage of giving us durable(100 years) and distributable copy of the
manuscript on microfilm which we can rescan at any time in the future as new
technologies emerge.
You can see the results at www.gogan.ie. We didn't try to OCR them, which
you will understand if you look at the oul fella's handwriting :-)
Cheers
Mike
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bleck,
Helen
Sent: 28 January 2013 09:23
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Subject: Recommendations for scanners to digitise archival records
Hi all,
We're hoping to start digitising some of our records (ranging across text,
script, maps, plans, drawings etc), and also investigating the possibility
of OCR-ing some of them. Our records have to stay here, we can't send them
out to be scanned. And we have a fairly restrictive budget!
We've been looking at BDM Technology's Mini-Scanner (A3 and A4 sizes - I
think we'll probably get more out of the larger one). Has anyone any
experience of this scanner? And does anyone have any other recommendations?
Any advice greatly appreciated!
Helen
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